Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Occupy Montana: Howling in the name of wolves

The first “dogs,” of course, were domesticated wolves but the chasm between man’s best friend and its much-maligned ancestor remains perilously wide. This reality not only goes a long way in illustrating the irrationality that permeates modern human culture, it also provides us with a golden opportunity to step up and protect our shared heritage…right now.

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Another of my recent photos:

A bunch more of my pics from Wall Street

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Poem: “haiku for one"


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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Can "Occupy Wall Street" Revive Left Activism?

“You say you got a real solution? Well, you know, we’d all love to see the plan.”
- John Lennon, “Revolution”

“I’d join the movement if there was one I could believe in”
- Bono, “Acrobat”

I was reminded of the above rock star quotes as I read criticisms of the “Occupy Wall Street” (OWS) protest. No, not the predictably smug mainstream dismissal of almost all activism as the domain of bored rich kids.

Rather, I’m thinking about the smug left wing dismissal of any activism that isn’t inspired by theoretical purity, e.g. Lauren Ellis in Mother Jones, who mockingly summed up the effort as “First make noise, then decide what the noise is all about?”

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Poem: “haiku puzzle"


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Planet of the Dammed

As Jacques Leslie, author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, explains: “The world’s dams have shifted so much weight that geophysicists believe they have slightly altered the speed of the earth’s rotation, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field.”

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Sending good wishes to our friend Helga:

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Another of my recent photos:

Here comes trouble...

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Poem: “haiku gravity"


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