"Misery Loves Company" is an old American idiom that has sadly become true considering the enormous amount of vitriol, malice and ignorance that is running amok in American political and cultural discourse these days. From politicians to radio shock jocks to ordinary folks, people have no problem with expressing…
By OcJim The talking head for plutocrats, Pretty Boy Paul Ryan, likes to borrow his ideas from others. He doesn’t believe in divisive class rhetoric, he says, except in his statement, “We’re coming close to a tipping point in America where we might have a net majority of takers…
Shared By: Tom Hastings The Occupy movement is submerging faster than it's growing. There are two manifestations of an underlying primary problem causing this in my town, Portland OR, and I suspect it's not entirely dissimilar elsewhere. Symptom #1: Street people magnet As one of my students and a…
As Oprah would put it , “I had a light bulb moment.” A male friend and I were sitting on the deck of his beautiful home, slinging back cocktails and contemplating the economy and many of life’s mysteries. (I love these few and far between moments with him. I…
By: John Shore @ JohnShore.com Yesterday I received this email (which I use here by permission): Dear John, Hi. My name is [deleted]. I am nearly 48-years-old, and am married with two grown children. I am also a Methodist minister in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have come to believe…
By: Thomas Vyncent The Zeitgeist Movement is like communism, democracy, and every science fiction movie and book you've ever seen, read, or heard about. In essence, it proposes that we, as a modern society, are steadily moving towards an apocalyptic world due to a lack of sustainability. This is…
By: Jackson Stevens With headlines ripped straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, finding out that a homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100 while another man (richer, of course) gets only a 40-month slap-on-the-wrist sentence for committing one of the US's largest corporate fraud cases by stealing…
By OcJim In full riot gear, a phalanx of several hundred police – Oakland, state, and neighboring communities -- violently dispelled peaceful Oakland participants of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the early dawn hours of Tuesday morning and again Tuesday night, using tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and…
At a recent ladies weekend in the middle of Northern Michigan, we needed food and booze. So a few of us headed down the road to the local Bait/ Liquor/ Grocery store. It's in one of those long pole buildings that the owner has been forced to diversify just…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence Environmental sustainability is one way we can help to prevent war. That, of course, is because no matter what the nominal reason for war, one underlying reason is often resource capture. Yes, it's true that we say we hate them because they…