"There is, I believe, only one solution to the crisis we face. The American people must make the decision to dismantle both the empire that has been created in their name and the huge, still growing military establishment that undergirds it. It is a task at least comparable to that undertaken by the British government when, after World War II, it ( Read more... )

Linus Torvalds, who else? Certainly not the current POTUS.

According to Professor John Mueller ( Read more... )

I'm gonna try this - how about you?

http://www.apfn.org/pdf/DIY.pdf

Impeach.

Impeach.

(Both of them, maybe more.)

This could be added to the May 5 post, but then nobody would see it. So here it is. This is a remark by Ronald H. Brady, from his article "Getting Rid of Metaphysics ( Read more... )

Jazz musician Dave Frishberg once wrote a song called "Marooned in a Blizzard of Lies". Every day, it seems more and more relevant and broader and broader in its application ( Read more... )

This is a poem dreamed by lucid dream researcher Stephen LaBerge - he saw it written on a piece of paper:

TO DUST, WE MUST;
TO LIGHT, WE MIGHT.

Is this a new genre - deep doggerel?

This morning, I heard Sen. Mark Dayton give his rationale for wanting a constitutional amendment against flag burning. To me, this adds weight to the sad motto, "You have rights in this country, but God help you if you try to exercise them ( Read more... )

"Thinking can never be explained by anything other than itself, because it is always thinking that does the explaining."

This remark (from Don Cruse's book Evolution and the New Gnosis) jogged me out of whatever was keeping me from posting anything for a long time. I suppose all 3 (?) of my loyal readers have given up long ago... I guess I'll have ( Read more... )