Iconoclast | Beth Byrnes

Creating harmony amid cacophony

Posted on February 1, 2014 7 Comments

I hope you won’t mind if I re-post an e-mail I received from Ralph Nader. This is what courage really looks like. Not capitulation and compromise of one’s core principles just to keep the peace, but true understanding of and compassion for human beings and our planet. Pete Seeger acted and in so doing, he […]

Dis-Sparity

Posted on November 27, 2013 8 Comments

This is going to be a brief post, just to make sure I don’t fall off the wagon during this busy part of the year. For one thing, I have been involved in completing a massive and very time consuming as well as complicated project that I hope to be done with tomorrow. For another, […]

no Savings grace

Posted on November 4, 2013 5 Comments

Like most opinionated vocal people I have pet peeves. Changing the clock twice a year is one of them. When these changes were six months apart, I didn’t mind them so much. But now that it is almost eight months and four months, I find this practice unsettling. This is likely because I am so […]

The great obscurian novel

Posted on October 30, 2013 24 Comments

I just got this email from Word Press: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/nanowrimo-2013/ I skimmed it as I usually do with their posts, just to find out if it was anything earth-shattering. Have you seen this? It invites us to spend November writing the great American, or whatever, novel. The challenge is to write every day and make it […]

Whose values?

Posted on October 14, 2013 29 Comments

This is Columbus Day. I just heard that there is a movement to change this holiday to Native American’s Day. Sounds like a good idea to me. That made me think about a couple of things going on right now. For one, one of our three parties is holding their annual “Values Voter Summit” this […]