BillHeise | November 19, 2011
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the inequalities in income in America, I also feel that there the OWS people are displaying something of a [...]
BillHeise | November 17, 2011
I’m a contrarian, so I’m always surprised when anyone understands what I understand about the world; but it appears that Bryan Appleyard has written an article that aligns so closely with my feelings on the history of aesthetics that I thought I’d it review it here. It appeared in the Intelligent Life supplement in the [...]
BillHeise | November 2, 2011
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been attacked as a ‘no-solutions’ guy by none other than Roseanne Barr. Adam’s solution had been to “take back” [...]
BillHeise | October 30, 2011
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer company in his parent’s garage, took it public, and drove the computer industry with his relentless vision, not on the [...]
BillHeise | September 29, 2011
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line where I am either conservative of liberal. According to this model, everyone initially agrees that I make good [...]
BillHeise | September 24, 2011
This is a rehash of my ideas on alienation and belief that I took out of a larger essay on Czeslaw Milosz, which I will publish soon. I believe in repeating myself, because people will eventually come around to taking me seriously if I repeat myself enough. However, after 30 years of trying, I have [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2011
I have been preparing a business plan all summer for my next book. This will mean sending out press releases, and I want to make sure that people know that I mean them no harm in my book, which I have titled Art in the Age of Talk Radio. The premise of the book is [...]
BillHeise | August 20, 2011
My friend, Ruth, posted a link to this article on Facebook this morning with a note expressing her approval. In the article, Ellie Herman, a teacher at the Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in South Los Angeles, expresses her concern over the lack of funding once showered on the California School system. She argues [...]
BillHeise | April 3, 2011
So I’ve signed off of Facebook, and I told you why a few days ago. Today, I want to tell you why I switched to Twitter as a better social network for my purposes. The reason is simple: I have had bad (bad, bad, bad, bad, bad) experiences on both sides of the political aisle. [...]
BillHeise | March 22, 2011
I took Facebook off my daily login of sites. I will check back every couple weeks, but I thought I would explain why. Most of my most active Facebook friends were posting things about politics. I maintain that I am not political and have friends on both sides of the political spectrum. I reserve the [...]
