Twelve Years Staying Put
In Montana, short visits can turn into long ones.
In 1998 almost everyone worried about the Y2K issue. It turned out not to be a big deal. Then came September 11, 2001, which continues to be a big deal (at least for some), and our rosily naive American outlook began to crumble across the board, eroding [...]
American Weekend
A local couple looks forward to a long weekend attending a music festival 120 miles from their mountaintop home. Man gets up early the day before they plan to depart and drives his econobox diesel import 90 miles closer to the event to set up a tent early (he’s a cautious guy) to reserve a [...]
Think It’s Bad Now?
Enjoy what could well be our last few months of culturally reinforced American insularity and relative plenitude. But at least put this bit of news in your pipe and smoke it in the meantime. Talk about it with family and friends. Or start digging up your backyard to grow some veggies.
I’m a happy guy despite [...]
Acid Test #394: Walking The Walk
Sure you care about the environment? When’s the last time you walked somewhere you would normally drive to? Rode a bicycle to do an errand? Recycled anything? Grew a garden or started a compost heap? Stayed home because you felt a trip was somehow wasteful and unneccessary? Bought something practical at a flea market or [...]
Dead People Balking
Running and writing for a blog that deals head on with you and your connection to some of the top issues facing humanity and all life on Earth is tantamount to standing on a street corner 24/7 handing out “Repent Now!” flyers to people as they pass by. Most of the flyers get tossed without [...]
Focusing on Environmental Truth
Another hysterical “the sky is falling” environmental site? Not exactly. The Whirled Home Journal exaggerates or misrepresents nothing with regard to our declining environmental state. The stories you find here are, sad to say, true. Statements written and posted to this journal will always be backed by factual evidence.
Beyond the gloom and doom, this [...]
Wishing you less of everything in 2007!
Here it is, Christmas Day 2006. It’s been snowing gangbusters here in western Montana. All is quiet, all is still. All is peaceful. Or so it seems.
2006 was a year of treading water, at best. The rich got richer. The poor got poorer. Governments became even more ruthless and reckless, pursuing nuclear technologies, testing nuclear [...]
Why (I Think) We’re Doomed
Take a hard look around. What do you see, really? A world consumed with itself, billions of people whose only principle motivation is to feed their faces and buy stuff to feather their nests. Damn the environmental and political torpedoes, it’s full speed ahead. Business as usual. The corporate makeover of our beautiful world continues [...]
Slice and Dice: What America Does Best
Fight for our beliefs. It is what humans are born and bred throughout life to do. It’s the basis of America’s two-party political system. We do it unconsciously and consciously. We learn at an early age to slap labels on the other side of our public (and private) issues rather than dig for common [...]
How Small Are You?
It seems most people in the industrialized world have their hands full with their own lives. So full in fact that there’s no room left for civic discourse, or enough energy left at the end of the day for taking any kind of action. If this describes you, congratulations, you’re leading a really small life.
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