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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...
View ArticleElection 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,...
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...
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