Author Archives: Fe Bongolan

Since Neptune moved into Pisces, the United States has been in a strange, hyperbolic interlude with it’s culture wars: the Komen Foundation sullied its own reputation by revealing its right-wing roots with a botched attempt to defund breast cancer screening … Continue reading →

Today, Karen Handel the vice-president of policy and center of the public relations firestorm at the Susan G. Komen Foundation, resigned her post. Handel, a former candidate for governor for the state of Georgia and pro-life activist, was the alleged instigator … Continue reading →

What’s happened is that Washington now works for those who can hire an army of lobbyists and an army of lawyers. If you’re in the drug business, and you are selling prescriptions to seniors, and you don’t want to have to … Continue reading →

Like that existentialists’ room with no doors or windows, we are now in what Jean-Paul Sartre called in his play No Exit, “the hell that is other people.”  The month of January has begun, and the silly season that is … Continue reading →

In keeping with today’s theme of the Sun-Pluto conjunction, I have a little personal history to share. For as long as I could remember, I sang. When I was five, my uncles would throw dollar bills onto the living room … Continue reading →

For some reason unknown to me other than my gut instinct, I’ve been putting a distance between myself and American electoral politics. It hasn’t been exactly clear what I’ve been seeing, let alone understand with the ever-shifting trends of conservative public … Continue reading →

It sounds strange to say, but when people like Frank Luntz get nervous, I get calm. For people who don’t know Frank Luntz, he’s a character right out of the pages of Orwell. His specialty — testing language and finding words … Continue reading →