Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History Of Recognizing Ourselves As A Part Of Nature
I have just published a book based on my observations from and about nature. The book is available through Smashwords or Amazon. Introduction There is a widely held belief that we are exempt from the laws of nature. And further, that we can treat the living earth...
Five Down and One To Go, where is Country Joe…
…when we need him prior to the Sixth Extinction? And it's one, two, three, What are we waiting for ? Just ask me, there is a reason, Next stop is Extinction; And it's five, six, seven, Open up the pearly gates, While there is still time to wonder why, We exclaim...
Brian Williams and the Fall of Civilization
A celebrity news reader has been accused of misrepresenting a trivial incident during Iraq War II. Authentic journal Bill Moyers pointed out the irony: More attention paid to Williams than to the lies of Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld that got us into an...
Dangerous Sleeper Cell Suspected in Washington, D. C .
During the 19th century, following the age of sail, the British Navy made the decision to stick with the energy source of the future: coal. They saw little value in oil. Britain had lots of coal; digging it up provided lots of low wage jobs and lots of corporate...
This Changes Everything – But Will It Matter?
Socialist economist Naomi Klein speaks truth to power once more in her recent book, This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs. The Climate. She is convinced that climate scientists are correct in their predictions that our current course of unbridled carbon pollution...
Je Suis Charlie: Social Justice, and Warning for Corpocracy?
Should the internationally destructive corporations and the politicians they own fear Je Suis Charlie? Over a million people of many different religions plus 43 heads of state marched together in Paris on Sunday not for revenge, not pro-fascist or pro-corporate but...
A Very Pretty Nature Essay. But Now What? Winter Solstice Thoughts
Writer George Monbiot has posted to the BBC one of the most beautiful web presentations I have seen. I enjoyed his essay, but am disappointed that, as is often true of writers celebrating the beauty of nature, he offers no pathway to the solutions (such as...
The Call of Cthulhu to Ayn Rand
In his 1901 book Lives of the Hunted, Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) gave the wildlife conservation movement a major boost, including this statement in the foreword: “My chief motive, my most earnest underlying wish, has been to stop the extermination of harmless...
The Parable of Admiral Yamamoto’s Suicide for the Age of Carbon Addiction
By the time of his death by from U.S. warplanes on April 18, 1943, Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of Japan’s Pacific naval war strategy, could see its impending failure. Sixteen months earlier, after the successful attack on Pearl Harbor, that path had seemed...
Bill Cosby and Jimmy Kimmel Foreshadow the End of Civilization Through the Culture of Humiliation
I should be used to it by now, but I remain irritated by news media attention given to celebrity antics which takes attention away from the vital issues of our time. Their abusive behavior (real or alleged) makes for popular copy. For example, comedian Jimmy Kimmel...