speaking of protesting…

Here’s one for you from The Smirking Chimp:
Future Shock: Evidence of Plans to Torture US Demonstrators
I do not see any way our government can even pretend to uphold the supposed traditional American values of little things like liberty and justice for all, that whole pursuit of happiness bit. The only reason it’s even possible [...]

Interfaith war protesters arrested outside US Capitol

71 War Protesters Seized; Baltimore’s Tradition of Civil Disobedience Continues
Of course, we can’t have any mainstream media attention on this. Terrell Owens’ possible suicide attempt or whatever it was is obviously FAR more important.
Jonah House website

The US Constitution: intended to provide liberty and justice for all?

Read this article and tell me what you think.
A Constitution for the Few: Looking Back to the Beginning — by Michael Parenti
The argument is that the actual way that the Constitution came into being served more to preserve and protect the status of the American upper class than the ideals we commonly assume today. Parenti [...]

civil obedience?

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over [...]

wow

Had it really been two weeks since my last entry? I’m going to try and write shorter articles more regularly, so maybe I’ll be able to get some of these big, paralyzing thoughts out of my head. I think so much before I start writing something that I tend to get stumped before [...]

boldly entering the new world we have created…

Scientists warn of new Anthropocene age
Or, more properly, epoch.
Scientists around the world are coming to the conclusion that the human industrial influence on the planet is so great that now we need to seriously consider defining a new epoch on that influence.
None of this is really news to me, though I hadn’t heard the formal [...]

it’s a quote world after all

The whole concern of doctrine and its teaching must be directed to the love that never ends. Whether something is proposed for belief, for hope or for action, the love of our Lord must always be made accessible, so that anyone can see that all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and [...]

two quotes on American politics and economics

“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist — McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell-Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.” — Thomas Friedman, “A Manifesto for the [...]

Peak oil, alternative energy sources, infrastructure, and the future of America

First, I’m going to assume that people will at least recognize that using sources of energy that create less pollution is generally a good thing, and even if you’re reading this and don’t believe in global warming (you poor, poor corporate dupe) it can’t possibly hurt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So it would [...]

Food article and September 11

I know I haven’t updated in over a week. Sorry about that, I’ve been busy in the real world with a few things. You know, the real world? That place where we breathe, eat, and sleep? Ok, well, some of you probably sleep.
I have some good stuff brewing in my mind, just can’t [...]

Happy Labor Day (tomorrow)

cartoon by Jeff Parker, Florida Today, found via Killer Coke.

The Hot Topic Phenomenon

Or, see the bit on my About page, “The revolution will not be televised, instead it will be analyzed and sold back to the ones who start it. And the rest of the world can watch via podcast.”
The tendency of the pop-culture market is to take that which is on the fringes and make it [...]

Your blog tells me I’m a comment spammer, so I’m posting this instead

J.S. (not the Watergate felon) Macgruder said:
I’ve been arguing for years that actually carrying out the Works of Mercy would likely result in an FBI file on you.
Especially if one is involved with a Catholic Worker house. I had a conversation this summer with Brian Terrell, Executive Director of the Catholic Peace Ministry in Des [...]