Green After-Birth?
Doug Bevington rebuts my critique of his book The Rebirth of Environmentalism: Grassroots Activism from the Spotted Owl to the Polar Bear (Island Press, 2009) by resorting to a make-it-personal dodge...
View ArticleThe Last of His Kind
I’m not gonna go so far as to say that David Vest’s new CD is his “Graceland.” It is, however, one of those excellent collections of songs that cover the range of an artist’s career; one that defines...
View ArticleSome Fight Back
Q: How do you know if you are rich, middle class or poor in America? A: When you go to work, if your name is on the building – you’re rich; if your name is on an office door – you’re middle class; if...
View ArticleBreak Out the Clothespins
I’m not buying the “Democrat Bloodbath” scenario that’s being relentlessly pimped by the corporate media – “The Democrats are going to lose 20,000 seats in Congress; hundreds of statehouses…blah, blah,...
View ArticleSaint Misbehavin’
“Bless this day as it transpires and help me be the best Wavy Gravy I can muster.” The movie Saint Misbehavin’ begins with Wavy ending his morning prayer as he always does; in his room at the Hog Farm...
View ArticlePipeline to the White House?
Whenever the usual centrist/corporatist Democratic Party presidential candidate needs to burnish the old Green credentials, they can always count a on a cabal of funders, professional “greens,”...
View ArticleJumping to the Front of the Occupy Parade
I went with friends to the Occupy Portland event at Pioneer Courthouse Square Portland at Noon last Friday. It was headlined by the band Pink Martini who played a bunch of songs in between a series of...
View ArticleSpringtime for Hoover
Clint Eastwood is one of Hollywood’s top movie directors. He’s directed (and starred in) many movies; from the great, redefining-the-genre western The Outlaw Josey Wales, the Oscar-winning Unforgiven,...
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Here Comes Moore Trouble
Michael Moore is first and foremost a story-teller – in the fine Celtic tradition. Moore has put his heart and soul into a memoir, Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life. Moore’s been accused of...
View ArticleWall Street’s Failed 1934 Coup
“In the last few weeks of the committee’s official life it received evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country…There is no question...
View ArticleWhen Environmentalists Collaborate
Spring is in the air in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Crocus and daffodil add a splash of late winter color. Trees are budding. Days grow longer, the sun makes a cameo appearance…and, like swallows to...
View ArticleOf Advocates and Activists
The 30th Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) was held at the University of Oregon’s William W. Knight (yep, NIKE Phil’s dad) Law Center March 1- 4. The weather was spectacular; the...
View ArticleIs the End of Prohibition at Hand?
Back in 1970, I was part of a group of about thirty protesters who descended upon the Michigan State Capitol to protest the hard-time incarceration of our friend, ally and hero John Sinclair. John, a...
View ArticleHide-and-Seek With Mitt and Barack
“Well, it’s time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry’s going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because of course, that’s totally and completely wrong.” — Mitt Romney OK, I’ve stopped...
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When Harry Met Chairry
“A man’s got to know his limitations.” –Det. Harry Callahan Here it is a few days later, and I still can’t get the strangest wrap-up to a political convention I’ve ever seen out of my mind. Sad as it...
View ArticleHempstalk and the Coming End of Prohibition
Another Portland Hempstalk has come and gone. This free annual weekend after Labor Day celebration of Cannabis Culture, billed as “Two Days of Hemp and Music,” has grown into quite the cultural event...
View ArticleShut Up and Vote Obama
It’s election time again and that brings on the national pastime of analytical blather from all sides. (Yours truly, like so many others, certainly feels compelled to write more during this season.)...
View ArticleHypocrite Narcissist Explains Things to the “Raging, Rancid” Left
“Anyone who makes a comfortable living off of anything having to do with resistance is part of the problem.” — Marc Salomon Self-anointed Resistance spokesperson Rebecca Solnit’s nasty, pro-Obama...
View ArticleBaseball’s Most Valuable Human
“You’re going to make good pitches, and Cabrera is going to hit them.” — Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Dan Haren In 1967, the last day of the professional baseball season, my neighborhood...
View ArticleHot Air, Photo Ops and Bill McKibben’s “Greenest” City
“Superstorm” Sandy exposed many things about (our) Darth Cheney’s unsustainable “non-negotiable American Way of Life.” Besides the in-your-face revelations of just how bad our fossil-fuel-addicted...
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