About Us

Terry McKenna joined Brian some five years ago, writing a weekly policy rant. After writing a succession of unread essays, he was very happy to see the original Daily Revolution come to an end. Yet he very quickly became bored with his free weekends, so rejoined the new effort with his usual enthusiasm.

Of the two primary writers, Terry’s focus is on the practical limits of making things happen in a democracy.  This contrasts with Brian’s focus which is more “new agey” or spiritual.  Nonetheless, he also writes about religion and art with an insider’s sympathy.

Terry remains a registered Republican, but a moderate who wonders what happened to the party he supported when he came of age.  As a moderate Republican he also find lots of skeptics regarding the nature of moderation, but there you go – complex notions are hard to explain everything, and moderation requires a more complex mind than is needed to support the current anti-intellectual form of conservatism.  He also is an atheist, yet has attended church often in the past few years in the course of his hobby, choir singing. He reads the Bible and occasionally inserts both quotes from Scripture and prayers into his posts.
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Ellen Winkler, a psychotherapist in private practice, offers Complementary Counseling at her office in Columbia County, in upstate New York. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist who works psychodynamically and also uses shamanism and channeling in treatment. A graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles’s Clinical Psychology program, she enjoys working with adults and adolescents and has been trained in art therapy, treating emotional conditions of childhood, and HIV counseling. She learned to channel at the Center for Personal Transformation in Woodland Hills, CA. Her spirit guides or “unseen friends” have helped her through her own physical/emotional illnesses, and she would sincerely like to share their words of wisdom, trust, unconditional love, and information with others. For an appointment, contact her via email, at her Psychology Today listing, or at 310-430-6902.
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Night, the black cat. Cats can’t write, but they can deliver a very clear message. So Night the Cat (known throughout the campaign season as Obama-Cat) talks; the editor channels, translates, and types, and that’s how you get a cat blogger. What puts a black cat in the mood to talk politics? Plenty of tuna, a warm place to sleep, open windows, and a relatively clean litter box. As Night often says, “Life is pretty simple when you focus on the essentials.”
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Our Mission Statement

One of the great blessings of the Intarwebs is its diversity of perspective. Diversity is the most effective refutation of insularity. No single entry among the most illuminated sites out there — including the many you will find sprinkled throughout our Blogroll — can give you the entire perspective you will need to be truly informed. Each one provides a larger or smaller piece of the entire puzzle (and I have found that it is often the smaller pieces that are the most critical to understanding); a portion of the greater meaning that supports an intelligent citizenry. Our part in this is extraordinarily, microscopically minute, and consists in three broad points: