It’s Not About Free Trade, It’s About Open Access to Ideas
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single…
There’s an Epidemic in Hollywood
And it’s called Wanda Group (among others).
Do Not Go Quiet into Chronic Pain
For those of us with chronic conditions, life can often feel like a series of compromises and fallbacks. I’m fortunate in many ways. I also have a chronic illness and a host of secondary, comorbid chronic conditions.
Making Futurism Work for You
The Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better. A practical mode of bettering ones life, the Solarpunk ideal is the realization that a resistance needs to ignite, a resistance to the idea that “things are just
All Men Should Watch Pride and Prejudice (1995)
I was one of those young men who thought that Pride and Prejudice was the last thing I wanted to experience. But, oh, how I was wrong. I had accepted the prevailing masculine norm of my culture without realizing it; I had become colonized by thoughts which were not my own.
The Purpose of Education (and why current systems fail)
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another approximate. Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they preserve self-respect?
Poor Air-Quality Decisions Put Lives at Risk
On November thirteenth, members of the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) issued a decision on a crisis. Given what we know of the impacts of climate change, it is quite likely that California will continue to see many devastating fires in the years ahead, and schools need to be ready for tha
The Duty to Party
This is not an article tackling all the many broad issues, nor even those which I usually mention. No, this is a different sort of article. It comes to me, as the November 6th election day draws to a close, that there is a substantial problem with the voting mindset in the United States, one which
2018 Voter Guide
Compiled for District 2. Includes Sonoma County and Sebastopol voter information. Compiled for District 2. Includes Sonoma County and Sebastopol voter information.
Eco-Community, Technology, and Evolution
As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things. As the world changes, as capitalism shows its true face, as the climate cycles falter and shift, we need to concentrate on two things.
How National Novel Writing Month Changed My Life
Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. For the first time in what felt like a lifetime,
The Importance of Rejection
Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider. Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider.
Hard Work: The Greatest Con
You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? You’ve heard it all before: “Hard work is good for you. The people who don’t work are lazy. Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with
Aikido and Zombies
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt.
Richard Wright: The Best American Haiku
With Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death. Wright offers his perspective, his own loneliness, and his own desire for wholeness within three simple lines of poetry, allowing us to know him intimately at his most vulnerable and his most human.