You’ve got to start thinking about this as an ecosystem. All these plantations might as well be growing corn. But if you want clean water, salmon, wildlife, and high-quality lumber, you’ve got to have a forest. — Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society biologist and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Seeing a pair of bald eagles, …
Note: Originally published in award-winning Street Roots 27 June 2020. One person’s refugee status is another’s loyalty to employers, state and country “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the …
The famous quote from the Dustin Hoffman movie, ‘The Graduate,’ is not wasted on Duane Snider: “One word: plastics.” That was Benjamin Braddock, just graduated from college, sitting in a swimming pool. Giving him advice on attaining the American dream, the neighbor’s statement says it all. Today? Hedge funds? Flipping houses? Coronavirus repossessions? For Duane, …
*ACAB meaning, all cops are bastards . . . FTC too! (fuck the cops) It never changes, the censoring, the recriminating, the middling mindless prater that my fellow citizens have shown almost the entirety of my life. It isn’t surprising, and, to be honest, it’s more pathetic than angering, but for sure, at age 63, …
“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” — Michelle Rosenthall A features column in an arts and lifestyle rag usually doesn’t go down the rabbit hole of a person’s trauma and her battles scraping to get out of darkness. A few artists I’ve interviewed for Deep Dive unleashed …
Yeah, I hate Facebook, and I got suckered into it as a request for my work with a non-profit. To be honest, I did not get much from Fuck-You-Book in that regard. My non-profit even purchased Google and Facebook ads, and that brought my work zilch. So, engaging in robust, funny, sarcastic, profane, anti-authority, pushing …
Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. If the lightbulb needed changing, the market would have already done it. Anyone concerned with democracy should be worried that the seam between Wall Street and the government is almost invisible. Interesting. So, when I repost things from MSM or …
Charles Eisenstein, summarizes the crossroads that we face: “For a long time, we, as a collective, have stood helpless in the face of an ever-sickening society. Whether it is declining health, decaying infrastructure, depression, suicide, addiction, ecological degradation, or concentration of wealth, the symptoms of civilizational malaise in the developed world are plain to see, but we …
There are some things that can’t be the truth even if they did happen. — Chapter Two, Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey Sometimes you gotta pull rank. First, though, the evidence of the shit-hole country that it always has been: A lady in Newport, OR (pop. 8,000) had the fellow who used to cut …
Citizens United and Authorization for Use of Military Force, and on and on — the fleecing of America, the world, US Murder Inc. Amazing that the country is in this spasm of revolt, tied to the most recent murder by cop we get to see live taped on TV. As if this was the only …
