my thoughts on my life and my world
It’s as American as the apple pie grandma can afford to make you because she collects a Social Security check. Stop demonizing the word! From ignorance of their own history, economy, and government, most Americans flinch at the word “socialist.”
Communism is not an inevitable “next step” after socialism. The Soviet form of [...]
Found on Candide’s Notebooks:
The absurdity of Americans’ rejection of the Dubai deal is equally striking, given that, as Larry Lindsey wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, the United Arab Emirates “provides the main base to service U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean ” and is “the largest servicer of our [...]
Joyce Marcel is one of my favorite essayists. I read her on commondreams.org. Today’s essay really spoke my mind on the subject of capitalism. Here’s an excerpt, and a link to the full article.
Two capitalisms stopped in a snowy wood; one took the path less traveled by, and that made all the [...]
“If it keeps on rainin, the levee’s going to break…”
UPDATE: April 15, 2008 Well, it’ll never happen now. When I wrote this (January 2006) I actually had my hopes up that it would happen, due to the rising influence of the Democratic Party in Congress. Betrayal is all I feel now; the elected and re-elected Congress people went in with two clear [...]
The Wolfowitz doctrine, which George W. Bush has made into official U.S. foreign policy, envisions a “New American Century” of one world, under God [as Christian fundamentalists view him], indivisible from the One Superpower, with liberty and justice for all who are for us (not for those against us). [...]
It’s like Chomsky repeatedly says: institutions are not about to do anything that would harm themselves.
Power is intoxicating. When men get a taste of it, it is addictive like crack, like crystal meth. Power is the rich man’s meth. Once he gets it, he’ll do anything to keep the supply [...]
The Ron Mann documentary film of Woody’s SOL (Simple Organic Living) contained this poem, and I went to the website and found it. The film is called Go Further.
This movie is described well by a Woody quote from someone on heavenlysanctuary.com:
“Eating is a simple and political act that we practice every day. It has [...]
View the movie clip. It’s embarrassing to me to think my president can’t field questions from the press without looking like he’s in way over his head. Is it too much to ask of a president that he (or she) be a good communicator? Shouldn’t that really be a prerequisite for the [...]
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