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Jungle Writers

David P. Kronmiller, Editor-In-Chief
Notes from the Jungle
Matthew Tullman, Current Events Editor
On current events.
Joyce Chen Blogging from New York.
Tharuna Devchand Blogging from South Africa.
J Lampinen
Our resident comic strip, Congo & Steve
Joanna Lord
Blogging on life, art and spirituality.
Jeremy Olsen
Director of Development emeritus and occasional commentator.
Dan Rickabus
On things musical.
Nicky Schildkraut
On poetry.

Plus guest writers and past staff, including Zach Fehst, Amy Reynolds, Aaron Vaccaro, Jae Day, Sarah Jawaid, Scott Martin, and Bronson Picket.
October 22, 2009, at 2:06 pm — Blogs

THE “i” GENERATION – PERILS OF THE MODERN EYE

I was glancing through Ben Smith’s blog over at Politico.com and ran across an interesting entry about a Public Service Announcement running here in California concerning the LAPD’s iWatch Program. iWatch appears to be an attempt at a city wide anti-terrorism neighborhood watch. On the LAPD’s website under iWatch it reads: “iWATCH, iREPORT, i KEEP [...]

October 14, 2009, at 11:21 pm — Blogs | Interviews | video interview | Videos / / / /

BREAKING BREAD OVER RELIGION

We’re pleased to announce the premiere of our new series/segment “Breaking Bread” where I sit down over a meal with a guest and discuss a topic about which we don’t fundamentally see eye to eye and hope that by the end of the meal we’ll find some common ground. And to kick things off we tackled that unifying of all topics – Religion.

October 9, 2009, at 3:06 am — Blogs / /

OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” – Thomas Jefferson Peace. Something we shy away from really – we act as if it’s some goal we want to achieve but our actions never quite match up – we relegate the concept to [...]