Originally posted on Why It Matters: The time was nearing eleven p.m. when twenty-two year old Melanie Safka, or Melanie, took the Woodstock stage.  A label mate of Bert Sommer’s over at Buddah, she was enjoying a little success in Europe with her single “Bobo’s Party,” but she was still a few years away from…

Originally posted on BLITZKRIEG BOPP: Like many people I have read Leo Traynors latest blogpost in which he tells about how online trolling lead to actual death threats made against him and his family IRL (In Real Life) as well as shocking and insulting artefacts being left on his doorstep. It makes for frightening reading…

In a Buddhist scripture we talk about seven ways to make offers to people that do not involve the use of money or material goods. The first is “the offer of the eye,” that is looking at people in a compassionate way. The second is “the offer encouragement.” The third is “the offering of the…