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Did you vote?
I'm registered in Benton county, Arkansas even though I haven't lived there since 2008. I could have requested an absentee ballot, but I didn't ( Read more... ) -
Episode 200: The Long Defeat
http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-04-07T00_56_32-07_00
In this 200th episode of the C-Realm Podcast, KMO blends content from Corey Olsen (AKA the Tolkien Professor), James Howard Kunstler, and Doug Lain of the Diet Soap podcast to ( Read more... ) -
Set 'em up just to knock 'em down
Lately, the much-repeated aphorism has circulated around the Web that civilizations build their most extreme monuments at the very moment of collapse. If this is true -- and it is hard to argue with the historical record -- then it's time to organize a new Third Party for the 2012 election with Jared Diamond and Cormac McCarthy heading the ( Read more... ) -
Kunstlerfunk Nation 09
Jim Kunstler has posted his predictions for 2009. I haven't read beyond the first paragraph yet, but it starts like this:There are two realities "out there" now competing for verification among those who think about national affairs and make things happen. The dominant one (let's call it the Status Quo) is that our problems of finance and economy ( Read more... ) -
Zombie Metaphor
Long time listeners to the podcast know that I'm a fan of zombie movies. The zombie metaphor is like a Swiss army knife. It can be re-purposed and called into service to do a variety of jobs. Jim Kunstler enlists the zombie metaphor in his latest blog post in which he likens the US economy and the money-for-nothing credit system to a corpse that ( Read more... ) -
Kunstler on the Colbert Report
I've interviewed James Howard Kunstler twice. The first interview can be found in C-Realm Podcast episode 72: The Long Emergency.
In April, I drove to Austin, Texas to meet up with Jim Kunstler at a gathering of the Congress for the New Urbanism. I recorded his address to that crowd and podcast it in episode 86: Moments of Contingency. ( Read more... )
