27 Articles

Friday, May 16, 2008
A Rant on Democrats Selling Out
(1 comments) On the depravity of arguing the entire future of a vast, diverse Republic hangs solely on appealing to less educated, older, lower income, white, blue collar workers of the Appalachian spine.

Friday, May 16, 2008
A Poem To Feel The War
(13 comments) Because our government censors the reality of war from us, we must rely on our own imagination to understand the true suffering in Iraq and Gaza and Afghanistan and . . . . If we do not face and try to feel the pain we cause, we can never generate the empathy needed to stop this and all other and future wars.

Friday, May 9, 2008
On (Not) Being Taken For Granted
(1 comments) The only way Democrats could take the nomination from Obama and give it to Clinton would be to take the real Democratic base for granted. Let's make sure they know they cannot.

Friday, May 2, 2008
A Crisis Like No Other!
Have we really come to this? Wars, famine, global warming, unaffordable food and fuel. And the news is covers what a reverend said and a politician did or did not say.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Dear Democratic Party: Please Don't Become Racist
(4 comments) ANY talk of denying Barack Obamba the Democratic nomination because working class whites won't vote for a black man is racist. Stop it and squash it. Now.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Day A Brilliant Man And A Bad Man Both Told The Truth
(1 comments) America ended when a brilliant man told a powerful truth and the powers that be were outraged and shocked and when the most powerful man in the world, a bad man, confessed to a war crime no one cared.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Jesus Marches On
(1 comments) A follow up to Jesus Weeps. We must grieve the suffering our nation has caused, but we must hold to hope for healing and change. And most importantly we must act to bring change. The basis for hope and an outline for change here. A third part on detailed action suggestions to follow.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Jesus Weeps
(14 comments) And so does every teacher of love and peace who ever walked the earth. A tiny accounting of some of the appalling but unstated collective decisions underlying the horrifying condition of our humanity.

Sunday, November 4, 2007
SHOCKING!! PAKISTAN'S MILITARY RULER IMPOSES MILITARY RULE! (AND WE DO NOTHING).
The administration seeks in the Middle East and South Asia solely and exclusively to impose its will for its purposes regardless of the will of most of the citizens and regardless of the overall public good of the people. That is only democracy to the extent they believe it is democracy at home as well. Bad news, folks; really bad news.

Sunday, September 23, 2007
Say Goodbye To America
(17 comments) Nearly three-quarters of the United States Senate just passed a resolution condemning the Move On ad against the Petraeus report. In doing so, they began the elimination of free political speech and took the final step to fascism. We are there now and we are no longer a constitutional polity.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Working Harder To Make The Rich Richer
New data shows Americans are the most productive workers mainly because we work so much more, but wages are flat. Data also shows our CEO's make three times more than European CEO's. We work more to make our richer richer. Period. I know you know, but read the details and weep.

Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Hope of Spirit-Fueled Social Action
(5 comments) The truest hope for our age is co-creation of a compassionate political world using the power of spirit and the irresistibility of love. All that is needed for good to prevail is for good people to get off the fence and take action -- political and social action.

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Rove's Thorough Electoral Mediocrity
(6 comments) Forget about all the deep political analysis and accurate invective, from 1994 to 2007, even Rove's main claim to fame, his electoral record, actually sucks. A former Texan explains.

Monday, July 30, 2007
WE ARE ALL THE LEAST AMONG US
(3 comments) With Bush denying health care to poor children while cutting taxes for the rich and funding war for energy, here is a meditation on the political imperative of assessing our leader's humanity the way Jesus advised he would assess his followers: By the way they acted toward the least among them.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
The REAL Reason Bush and Cheney Will Not Face Impeachment
(3 comments) The elitist corporate shills in Congress will never move to embarrass the elitist corporate shill in the White House. Clinton was a mild threat to corporate dominionists (think Mussolini's definitions here); Bush/Cheney are their wet dream.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
SHOCKER OF ALL SHOCKERS!!!!!
(2 comments) IRAQI PARLAIMENT, AMID DISASTROUS WAR, TAKES OFF AUGUST, (EXACT SAME MONTH AS US CONGRESS, AMID EXACT SAME DISASTROUS WAR, PLUS ONE, TAKES OFF)

Saturday, June 30, 2007
I Know Where All The Young (non)Protestors Are
(24 comments) Where are all the young protestors as their nation is collapsing? Open your eyes and you will see; and then wipe your eyes when it hits you.

Friday, June 29, 2007
Marx Helps Explain Cheney
(5 comments) Karl Marx is one of the most prescient liberal political and economic philosophers who ever lived. This article uses Marx's theories to explain how and why Dick Cheney is so boldly proclaiming himself King.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
BREAKING: Rural Oregon Grandmothers Lock Themselves in Congressman's Office To Protest the War
(4 comments)

Sunday, February 25, 2007
Supreme Corp.: Limiting Punitive Damages When Corporations Kill
(1 comments) The United States Constitution, former protector of individual rights, is again adapted to protect massive accumulations of wealth in non-human legal fictions called corporations. Fair warning: contains some, but not too much, legalese.

Friday, February 23, 2007
I Sat Down to Write of the End of America
(1 comments)

Monday, February 19, 2007
The Will To Be Bound Is All We Really Have
In a government based on principles, the will to remain bound to them is all that protects the people's rights. Our government is losing (or has lost) its will-ingness. Do we have the will to insist they honor our social compact?

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Its Called Passive Suicide
(5 comments) Only this time its being contempated for an entire nation (ours, by attacking Iran)

Friday, February 9, 2007
Betrayal (Or How The 2007 Democrats Are Losing Democracy)
(3 comments) After promising so much and so raising hopes, if the Democrats lose their new and renewed 2006 suporters, we really could lose what's left of democracy.

Saturday, January 20, 2007
Slyly Stealing Sovereignty From The People
(7 comments) In arguing there is no right to Habeas Corpus, was Alberto Gonzles betraying a deeper administrative ideology against inherent rights and popular sovereignty?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The War Powers of Congress
(2 comments) Contrary to conventional thinking, Congressional excuses and Presidential and media blather, Congress has tremendous Constitutional power to impact the Iraq war and stop the "surge." Its set out here. Stop letting them get away with pretending they don't.

Friday, January 5, 2007
WAR IS NOT A GAME, So Quit Talking Like It Is
(1 comments) Progressive media and leaders must cease discussing the Iraq war in terms of "winning" or "losing"; "doubling down" or "gambling." Using this language wrongly links wars to games, and makes it harder to convey the true horror of the Iraq War. War is hell; not a game. We need to stop using the language of games and start using the language of the serious failure of humanity the Iraq War really is.