It’s teeth-grinding time as we head into Winter Solstice, the longest night/shortest day of 2011. And none of these rants even cover the NDAA catastrophe!

But wait! See next post for another (possible) view of what’s happening there.

I pray that the return of the sun will shed its revivifying light into all the stuck places of our collective human family. May we all wake up together!

• Rant on Newt Gingrich:

A Better World’s in Birth (Maybe), by David Michael Green

• Rant on Empire:

The Language of Empire, by Robert C. Koehler

• Rant on Iraq:

War Without End, Amen, by Chris Floyd