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A whole lot of improv going on. Photo: AdBusters. Hey you nimble dreamers, wild cats and horizontals out there, Occupy’s spring offensive is building toward a climactic May uprising. It’s time to come...
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Denial, anger and acceptance while circling the drain
The planet is dying and we're in denial. Photo: Dontcallmeikke via Flickr. I remember the exact time when I knew for sure that my dad’s cancer was entering the late stages. After his six hour brain...
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The gates of Hell
Dante's Divine Comedy aka "Dante Shinkyoku," a manga adaption of Dante Alighieri's classic work "The Divine Comedy" by Nagai Go. Source: Manga.net In a letter to Ernest de Chabrol dated 9 June 1831,...
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Junk food for Jesus
You cannot serve two masters. Do you choose the Gospel according to Jesus, or the gospel according to Cathy? Image: Jim Tignor. I’m a Christian. But I wouldn’t eat at Chick-fil-A even if the company’s...
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Not even a spoonful of sugar could help
Image: Sammy Slabbinck via Flickr. Television anchor Edward R. Murrow is credited with this expression: “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it...
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The new existentialism
Contemplating the future. Photo of image: Filosofia en Costa Rica via Flickr. “As this planetary crisis invades our individual lives, unavoidably, neither the personal nor the collective misconception...
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The Capitalism Papers: Fatal flaws of an obsolete system
Photo by You as a Machine via Flickr. Self-interest lies at the root of capitalism. This self-interest is a thoroughly predictable, steadily consistent feature of the human landscape and can reasonably...
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A new kind of Christmas story
Christmas Wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery. Photo: Beverly & Pack via Flickr. ‘Tis the season for reaching out, connecting, and gifts, for good or for ill. One of the Christmas cards was...
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Sadly, extinction is no laughing matter
The wise fool. Quoting Carl Sagan, I begin some presentations with this line: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring....
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For sale, habitable planet, too late
Just another day on the planet of rising waters. Photo: Don McCullough via Flickr. According to legend, Ernest Hemingway bet his 1920s-era colleagues he could write a complete story in just six words....
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‘Snowpiercer’ off the rails
Tilda Swinton is from the government but she’s not here to help in Snowpiercer. In portraying environmental issues, film has proven its unique power to influence public sentiment. A standout example is...
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Jill Stein’s Ridiculous Run
I share many of Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein’s values. On climate and energy, I absolutely agree that our world is in crisis and that we need some form of a “Green New Deal,” though...
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The gates of Hell
In a letter to Ernest de Chabrol dated 9 June 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything...
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Junk food for Jesus
You cannot serve two masters. Do you choose the Gospel according to Jesus, or the gospel according to Cathy? Image: Jim Tignor. I’m a Christian. But I wouldn’t eat at Chick-fil-A even if the company’s...
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Not even a spoonful of sugar could help
Image: Sammy Slabbinck via Flickr. Television anchor Edward R. Murrow is credited with this expression: “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it...
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The new existentialism
Contemplating the future. Photo of image: Filosofia en Costa Rica via Flickr. “As this planetary crisis invades our individual lives, unavoidably, neither the personal nor the collective misconception...
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The Capitalism Papers: Fatal flaws of an obsolete system
Photo by You as a Machine via Flickr. Self-interest lies at the root of capitalism. This self-interest is a thoroughly predictable, steadily consistent feature of the human landscape and can reasonably...
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A new kind of Christmas story
Christmas Wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery. Photo: Beverly & Pack via Flickr. ‘Tis the season for reaching out, connecting, and gifts, for good or for ill. One of the Christmas cards was...
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Sadly, extinction is no laughing matter
The wise fool. Quoting Carl Sagan, I begin some presentations with this line: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring....
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For sale, habitable planet, too late
Just another day on the planet of rising waters. Photo: Don McCullough via Flickr. According to legend, Ernest Hemingway bet his 1920s-era colleagues he could write a complete story in just six words....
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