Dig, dig, dig

Gnaw the roots, hack the bones

Dig, dig, dig

Blackened earth, broken stones

Dig, dig, dig

When roots are torn, the tree will fall

Dig, dig, dig

The wretched tree that binds us all

Dig, dig, dig

I was watching Kevin O'Leary on CBC News this morning, talking about how it matters little whether the left or the right wins out in any political contest, the only thing that matters is that investors are happy.  If people with money to invest aren't happy with a political situation, they walk.  While I realize that O'Leary is something of a ( Read more... )

Of late, I find myself taking a turn ( Read more... )

We live in a representative democracy, wherein each elected official represents the interest of a specific locality.  If those individuals, however, identify with political parties and remain as members of those parties by putting the interests of the organization first...who is really representing us where we live?

I was inspired to write the following after witnessing the kinds of memes and digital folklore American policemen share with each other on Facebook. I can only conclude that theirs is a world profound paranoia and horror, populated only by bloodthirsty criminals, the victims of bloodthirsty criminals, and the "family" of police unified a unique ( Read more... )

I find myself constantly flustered by my own myopic upbringing. Every time I meet an academic with some degree of success I feel like my white-bread American background is a cold sore perched on the edge of our conversation, waiting to make its grand entrance and declaring me the dork, the poser, the inferior. I struggle to find a place for myself ( Read more... )

Pagans, punks, goths, role-players and other Western subcultural elements are breeding grounds for revolutionary thought. However, society at large remains unchanged by these groups due to the marketing of the subcultural aesthetic. Rather than the transmission of revolutionary thought to society at large (whether by persuasion, force, or other ( Read more... )

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I had a vision in the shower just now, several ideas I'd heard over the past couple of days just fell into place and I began to understand...in that tinfoil-hat-living-in-another-country sort of way ( Read more... )

I want to put this out the open so it can be "on paper" and I can stop thinking about it in such a nebulous fashion. It came to my attention recently that someone very significant in my daily life has Type 2 Diabetes. Knowing this, I've recently made a great turn around in my eating habits, both to support this person and learn from the example ( Read more... )