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 [...]
Freedom Is Just Another Word
Sage words of advice by Koa on finding true freedom in this whacked-out world. A compelling personal statement wrapped around a warning to prepare for what’s next if ever there was one.
Thanks to Survival Acres (John) for posting this where I could stumble across it.
Hoovering, Government Style
Fascinating testimony from Russell Tice, NSA Whistleblower examining NSA data collection methods and the involvement of major telcos in sharing your (our) information. Was your electronic communication and credit information collected and scrutinized by spooks and their elaborate data mining tools in this massive undertaking? Hmm, sure looks like it. Tice has been speaking out [...]
The Birds Lose a Good Friend
My mother was a well-known birder, writer, lecturer and teacher who passed away February 27 from lung cancer. She lived from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the new Environmental Great Depression of 2007. She was a true friend of the environment.
This time, the depression isn’t simply economic. America recovered from the Great Depression. [...]
Captains of Industry Order Bush Course Correction
Finally. 10 CEOs of major U.S. companies are urging George Bush to take action and address global warming in his upcoming state of the Union address. This means he’ll bow and scrape for a few minutes, mutter the necessary platitudes, and move on to his favorite agenda:
Link to article.
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 [...]
Dumped on by Novell
Workers dream of staying at home
Biggest downside of being a telecommuter? I think it’s the unbridled jealousy of managers who by virtue of choices they’ve made are simply not able to do what I have done, which is prove beyond doubt that a knowledgeable person armed with a browser and working from home—interacting with informed [...]
