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Critical and cogent thoughts from Noam Chomsky on Obama's largely "business-as-usual"...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:47:00 GMT |
Wendell Berry - A Great American... |
In addition to being a wonderful poet and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the most direct, no-bullshit voices in the continued battle for respectful coexistence with Mother Earth. Watch, listen, an...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 19:14:00 GMT |
Ward Churchill--Embattled and More Right Than Ever... |
Despite ad hominem attacks on his "ethnic identity" and largely bogus challenges to the legitimacy of his scholarship, Ward Churchill remains a provocative thinker and a thorn in the side of BOTH the ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:13:00 GMT |
Howard Zinn, Viggo Mortensen - "A People's History of American Empire" |
You KNOW the ideas must be provocative if people are pissing-and-moaning about them in all kinds of self-serving, ugly, reductive ways. Here's to Old Man Zinn for redefining the boundaries of accepte...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:52:00 GMT |
Mark Ruffalo reads from Thoreaus "Civil Disobedience" |
Originally titled Resistance to Civil Government, this most prescient 1849 text speaks volumes to us about acts of conscience in a world suffused by apathy and indolence. For interested parties, "Civ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:46:00 GMT |
John Burroughs, Slabsides, Slide Mountain |
Despite his former status as the best-selling writer in America and his historical significance as arguably the greatest proponent of the nature essay in literary history, John Burroughs has become so...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:11:00 GMT |
Jack Kerouac - 'Lowell Blues' |
If you've got the time and interest, I STRONGLY recommend a pilgrimage to Jack Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, MA. It's one of my favorite places in the world and if you've any familiarity with that pa...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:50:00 GMT |
Biden and Palin--meet your Master: Matt Gonzalez... |
I'm finally over the fact that the best candidates didn't get to debate but it doesn't stop me from disseminating some challenging rhetoric courtesy of YouTube in the hopes of illuminating a few dark ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:25:00 GMT |
Sarah Palin--let me introduce you to Buddah Muir... |
John Muir--a TRULY great American (a Scot who took his time wandering the American landscape in a way that allowed him to know it more intimately than you or I probably ever will) who knew a thing or ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:36:00 GMT |
John McCain sure LOVES those Soldiers & Veterans... |
It's become SO easy to "pick on" John McCain that one wonders why the Democrats are NOT doing the job themselves with a great deal more alacrity and incisiveness in recent weeks. Hell, lots of l...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:57:00 GMT |
