Rarely do I read something I wish I had been the one to write, not only because it meets so exactly with how I feel, but the way the author lives his life in response to his understanding of our human predicament so precisely parallels my own. This essay reminds me of the time when […]
Read MoreAlong with billboards near D.C. asking more people to blow the whistle and recent whistleblower Brandon Toy, who credits Edward Snowden for the inspiration, now we have feedback loops, designed to help. Perhaps the corner really is turning? Thanks to activistpost for the pointer. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg5TqUmAGhM&feature=player_embedded]
Read MoreSo they’ve “ruled out foul play”? Like young, extremely effective and ethical Michael Hastings was responsible for his own well-timed death? Like young, extremely effective and ethical Aaron Swartz, ditto? Young life comes cheap for those determined to control the rest of us. Famed hacker Barnaby Jack dies a week before hacking convention July 26, […]
Read MoreI read this post, and wondered who “Simon Black” was. Here’s an interview with the man, who goes by a pseudonym, lives nowhere, and considers himself “a permanent traveler.” Hmmm. Perhaps that’s why he can distill such a stark conclusion from the great mass of info that the rest of us, more rooted, tend to […]
Read MoreBesides growing our food locally (slowing interstate truck transport waaaay down), what if we all let go of our cars and got back on our bikes? Remember how we used to tear around town as kids? Our lives would feel cleaner, quieter, healthier, more egalitarian, with gobs of opportunities to stop and say hello. Oh, […]
Read MoreManning and Snowden Light Path for the US to Return to Its Better Self Since the 9/11 trauma, America has allowed the national security state to ride roughshod over vital liberties. This is a turning-point July 26, 2013 by Yochai Benkler The Guardian via common dreams The closing arguments in the trial of Bradley Manning, […]
Read MoreIt consistently astonishes me, how the very worst lives cheek by jowl with the very best. How we see and interact with the world really does depend on what we choose to focus on. For me, to focus only on the worst is soul-deadening; and to focus only on the best ignores the muck out […]
Read MoreNotice the photo below. The astonishingly courageous and stalwart Bradley Manning continues to hold his head high no matter what the U.S. Government throws at him. May we all learn how to be with what is. As one Buddhist monk is reported to have said, when asked how he maintains equanimity: “I don’t mind what […]
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