Open Salon

You make the headlines

What is Open Salon?

tips

How you can build your blog's audience

Respond

View responses

tips

Follow us on Picture 18 and Picture 17

Respond

View responses

  • NSA: It's a LOT worse than you think!

    June 11, 2013 • 5:18 pm

    old new lefty

    By old new lefty

    The controversy surrounding Edward Snowden's series of revelations about NSA snooping into America's internet and telephone has been surprisingly muted, although admittedly both criticism and defense of the government's surveillance programs of its citizens has crossed ideology and party line…

  • Christine Macdonald

    Depressed? You're not alone.

    June 11, 2013 • 4:52 pm

    By Christine Macdonald

    In a recent email exchange with a certain family member about mental health (ok, my mental health), it didn't take long before finding myself in familiar and somewhat frustrating territory. With feeble attempts to illustrate how clinical depression is so much more than just "ha…

  • Daniel Rigney

    Surveillance: Who's Watching the Watcher-Watchers?

    June 7, 2013 • 2:44 pm

    By Daniel Rigney

    By Daniel Rigney The now-surfacing secret Internet data mining operation PRISM raises once again the ancient question in political philosophy:  Who will watch the watchers? In this instance, who will ensure that NSA and whatever administration happens to be in power at the moment won’t g…

  • Starshine Roshell

    Athesists Saved! (The Lord giveth and the Lord retracteth.)

    June 11, 2013 • 2:11 pm

    By Starshine Roshell

    For a brief moment last week, I was saved — and as an atheist, that was new for me. During morning mass at the Vatican, Pope Francis offered a sort of absolution for heathens. The Lord has redeemed all of us, he said. “Not just Catholics. Everyone! … Even the atheists.&rd…

  • Nick Leshi

    Celluloid's Last Gasp at the Drive-In

    June 7, 2013 • 3:08 pm

    By Nick Leshi

    Multiplexes across the country (as well as across the world) have already begun their conversion to digital projection. Despite the outcry from cinephiles and film preservationists, it seems a sure thing that celluloid is in its death throes. One last bastion has been the drive-in theater, whi/…

  • jlsathre

    25 Things I'm Learning From Closing a Bookstore.

    May 16, 2013 • 9:42 am

    By jlsathre

    A while back I wrote "25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore." This is the other bookend. 1. When people ask why you're closing, you can tell them that the economy's poor and people are buying Nooks. But it's more fun to tell them that it's time…