Election by Tweet
Here’s a compilation of some of the comments – pithy, insightful, silly and bizarre that I’ve seen flicker across the screen, was told in person or on the phone the last couple days. They are from...
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Tarantino’s American Love Story
I went to see Django Unchained with a screenwriter friend yesterday, forgetting that it was Christmas week and the matinees would be crowded. I’ve always been a little ambivalent about the already...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Boiler Room
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have...
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Tweeting as the World Burns
“They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.” —Ambrose Bierce “Bucket list item checked off: share a paddy wagon with Julian Bond. This is a broad...
View ArticleJolie’s Choice
In times crying out for a robust resistance, it seems that all we have are vacuous, me first, non-profit professionals and their corporate-foundation-funded, no-membership-voting-rights groups watering...
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The Human Cost of DeIndustrialization
“Laughing or crying; it’s the same release.” — Joni Mitchell I was sitting under a sheltering fir on a bench I made years ago of recycled wood at the edge of a 70-acre wildflower-filled meadow....
View ArticleThe Lone Greenhorn and the Magic Injun
The Lone Ranger. I had to see it. I’ve been reading a lot of critiques over the lame Native stereotyping and yes, there is validity to the complaint. But, I’ve also been talking with friends who went...
View ArticleSetting Up the Dems as the World Burns
Staggering. I can’t decide which is more ludicrous in the latest TomDispatch: the insufferable self-promoter, er, “inspired” Rebecca Solnit’s hagiography at the beginning or the insufferable, er,...
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Activist Malpractice
“I will say it again: the marketing of hope and change Obama is THE most brilliant ad campaign ever perpetrated on USians. And, like in many other ‘campaigns,’ desperate people cling to an illusion…cuz...
View ArticleThe Last Great Ethical Question
The Democrats’ plans to double the logging on public forests in Oregon are meeting with resistance. Not many are challenging Big Timber’s tax treatment or unprocessed log exports or the inherent...
View ArticleDown the Pipeline Rabbit Hole
The Washington Post ran an editorial Feb. 5th about the KXL Pipeline issue and the recent State Department study that concluded that building the northern link Keystone XL, which would run across the...
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Dancing Around the Collapsing Edges of Industrial Civilization
“It has never been our job to create solutions to these environmental problems, and we were never very good at it anyway. Why, in 1986 I spent four months in jail for demanding scrubbers for coal fired...
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Revenge Mission
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century.” ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces I’m always up for a new – in this case, a debut – novel filled with colorful,...
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Evaluating the Climate March on its One Month Anniversary
A month ago today, 300,000 people descended on New York City for the “This Changes Everything” People’s Climate March. While the parade infamously made no demands/no measurable way of gauging success,...
View ArticleOregon’s Historic Election
Bottom Lines for Oregon Election 2014? Oregon voters are pretty savvy on a lot of issues; Oregon is a one-party state; money still exercises a lot of speech in Oregon – and “Follow the Money” remains...
View ArticleOregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)
“It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” — Frank Herbert Oregon’s Governor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Friday the 13th. His resignation letter was the...
View ArticleOregon Governor Brown’s To-Do List
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown was sworn in as Oregon’s 38th Governor Wednesday, Feb.18. We don’t have the superfluous (as Florida, Massachusetts and Nebraska recently found out) position of...
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Garden Variety Environmentalism
“The environmental movement needs shaming at this point.” – Denise Boggs It was 60+ degrees and sunny – had been for weeks – in western Oregon, as I arrived in Eugene for the annual Public Interest...
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The TPP, the Biomassacre and the End Game for the Great Forests of the Northwest
New York’s Third Senator Ron Wyden, (D-Ecocide) had a banner week. First, the media and social memes were ubiquitous on the hours-long Faux Resistance mounted against the secret Trans-Pacific...
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Fund-Raising as the World Burns: Shell Drills the Arctic, Takes a Timeout and...
“Activism is the antidote to despair.” –Joan Baez “Claiming false “victories” crushes activism and leads to more despair. Claiming false “victories” in order to fund raise is shameless and stupid.” –...
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