It’s not a political problem
Good people have been trying to end poverty, wage peace, protect the environment, support women, improve education and prevent disease forever. And things do get better. But the problems persist. This...
View ArticleHow do you know?
I recently discovered Oso Delicioso,* which looks like a particularly pretty drive-up coffee kiosk, but is actually more of a real kitchen, with local, organic food! How cool is that? My friend (who...
View ArticleBelieve in Miracles
In February, I discovered the Group of 1000 (which is connected with the Conversations With God Foundation), and joined. Then I learned that there would be a conference, about a week away, in Ashland,...
View ArticleThe love of oil is the root of all evil
We might be running out of oil. Would that be such a bad thing? Well, I guess if we switched to coal, it would. Or planted corn all over the country to fuel our cars. But it seems to me that running...
View ArticleGreen Zone to be renamed “Yellow Zone”
The Green Zone in Baghdad isn’t as cozy today, after someone set off a bomb in the convention center, where Iraqi legislators were having lunch. In fact, this isn’t just in the Green Zone. It’s deep...
View ArticleGod, Schools Suck
A high school senior in Texas made a video-game map of his school. People do it all the time, and then they play violent games like Counter-Strike (or Halo, or Doom…) and that’s what this kid did. He...
View ArticleApparently, a poem
Time for poetry Are you a poet the new guy asks, trying to assess my fuckability I don’t know how to answer How do I say I’m too busy being the creative force of the universe to be his poet, fuckable...
View ArticlePeak Oil Won’t Save Us
Peak Oil folks keep saying that the sky is falling, and we’d better get ready. It seems like wishful thinking to me. Yes, sure, we’re running out of oil. But if you’re thinking that means we will no...
View ArticleBush Administration Discovers Liberty!
Under the Bush administration, the FCC has decided to correct a horrible oversight. See, up to now, the Hearst Corporation (run by descendants of William Randolf Hearst) and poor Rupert Murdoch has...
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