Everyone has a plan
What They’re Saying: “Everyone has a plan; until they get punched in the face.” – Mike Tyson. The Big Picture: Yet these treason weasels (and the police enablers who literally let them into the Capitol) […]
Articles by Daniel Franco
Table Stakes (And the Big Picture)
The Big Picture: So many obstacles exist to true progress that most days many activists I know want to bang their head against a wall, or give up, or worse. But it’s not so bad […]
Applause, applause
This post goes out to all my performer friends. 2020 has been a brutal year for nearly everyone. Definitely it’s been bad for the Arts. There are so many who deeply miss being onstage. They […]
Pop Culture
It is not much of a confession to admit I am a huge Sci-Fi nerd, always have been. A date once compared my apartment to a bookstore; that was not said charitably. Don’t care. I […]
Bite Sized Book Reviews II: Electric Boogaloo
Hello again, again! I’m still far behind on my book reviews, and now there really is no excuse. I do hope, gentle reader, that you can forgive my laziness. Even so, here is a second […]
The middle.
A reader recently noted that our situation seems very similar to the late 1930’s. In that time, the world was torn up with war. For many people, it felt like the true end of the […]
Bite Sized Book Reviews
Hello again. I’m far behind on my book reviews, and yet everybody is sitting home presently due to this Virus problem. Since my goal is to provide on Mobilized a full course curriculum on how […]
Book Review: The Prophet
This, only my second book review for Mobilized, is honestly one that I hoped never to have to write. Yet the present situation is dire. There is an unknown and dangerous virus harming folks everywhere. […]
Chautauquas and Lyceums and TED Talks, oh my!
We are aiming with Mobilized to create a vibrant forum for ideas. “Big deal”, you might say, there are already places for that. Well, you’re not wrong. There was, in the earliest days of the […]