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2012 is . . . er — WAS the end of the world.

Maureen Dowd on the election and re-election of Obama and who’s leading who, then and now

This, to me, is the single most pithy condensation of what happened on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. From her column in the New York Times, “Romney is President” (of white male America). If 2008 was about exalting the One, 2012 was about the disenchanted Democratic base deciding: “We are the Ones we’ve been waiting for.” […]

Good News for the Planet department: Five days after re-election, Obama shows new hand

Obama Administration Shuts Down Oil Drilling Out West November 10, 2012 visiontoamerica via rumormillnews The Interior Department on Friday issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development. The proposed plan would fence off a majority of the initial blueprint laid out in […]

Farmer/Author Joel Salatin: “Wow, we’ve been snookered!”

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Yes, let us cultivate the “relaxed alertness” of marijuana

You might read this wonderful piece on the balancing benefits of marijuana knowing that the tide is apparently turning on this long dreaded subject. And if it really is turning, then the benefits for society will be incalculable. I’m reminded of the first time I “got high,” back in the late ’60s. I thought to […]