HIGHLY recommended...Chris Hedges' column this week! Read it!

The S&M Election(http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_sm_election_20121105/Read more... )

I read John Michael Greer's "The Archdruid Report" regularly, and his post today was very interesting, about some differences of opinion and perception between the Transition Towns movement of Rob Hopkins and JMG's Green Wizardry. You can read the original posts at Hopkins' Transition Culture: Why 'Green Wizards Get Us Nowhere New and Greer's The ( Read more... )

Y'know in my part time job, I see unbelievable wealth amassed in hill sanctuaries, while people in town sit patiently on steps waiting for the next Lotto and getting drunk to kill time in between drawings.

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Ensuring justice through the process of law has been a disappointment for many. When I was the lead advocate of OHA's Native Rights, Land and ( Read more... )

Along with our Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Adams) [and Lincoln], I liked FDR the most (my family survived because of his helping the little guy). I liked T. Roosevelt because of his conservationist ethic in creating the National Forests and perpetuating National Parks. Nixon (though he was bad in other ways) did great things for Native ( Read more... )

Another light dusting of snow last night ( Read more... )

I never understood politics very well ( Read more... )

bi·o·re·gion·al·ism (bī'ō-rē'jə-nə-lĭz'əm) n. The belief that social organization and environmental policies should be based on the bioregion rather than on a region determined by political or economic boundaries. bioregionalist (bi'o·re'gion·al·ist) n ( Read more... )