Fuel: The Movie opened on the West Coast last week and will be making its way to a theatre near you soon. It won all kinds of festival awards including the Audience Award at Sundance for best Documentary. It is reported that audiences are standing up to cheer this movie unlike anything since Billy Jack (ugh!).
Thanks to Christina Erickson of the Huffington Post for spreading the word about this important new movie and for introducing the term "Paleo Politics" into our contemporary lexicon.
It's been quite a while since we've had a new political term that so perfectly fit the over-arching concept of our time. "Paleo-" links the failed economics of fossil fuel dependency with the obsolete and defunct ideas of political dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell and his Republican cronies. After trying to pull us all into the deadly oil slick they've made of the world it's high time they became extinct.
Once again "guided by a president who has no experience of war and defers to the bull-necked generals and militarists whose careers, power and profits depend on expanded war, we are transformed into monsters..."
AI Love You!
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For ages in the west, people have contemplated what separates us from the
animals. Human exceptionalism is just one of many ways we have managed ...
Grow: Notes from Session 6 of TEDNext 2024
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The right idea at the right time can bring people together to change the
world — but only if minds are open and ready to keep learning. For the
final sessi...
Dear David Bowie
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*by Dick Mac*
It's been seven years since you took the big trip, since you went away.
You never write anymore . . . that's how it goes now, I guess.
Th...
The Amazing Pavement Drawings of fellow Nabob, JULIAN BEEVER
To view a slideshow of this Masterful Artist's Illusions just click on the Giant Butterfly above
The Roots of "The Culture Wars" written November, 2008
At the 1992 Republican National Convention, Pat Buchanan lobbed the first explicit attack on modernity, officially declaring a War on Culture in America.
Seizing the RNC podium and appropriating the GOP mantel as a platform to wage his long-fantasized Culture War, Buchanan delivered a rousing speech that presumptively enlisted the support of that party under the leadership of first President Bush.
Buchanan denounced the "radical feminism" of Bill and Hillary Clinton's " agenda [that] would impose on America -- abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat -- that's change, all right," he said, "But it is not the kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of change America needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate in a nation that we still call God's country."
Those words may ring familiar as they were echoed anew at the 2008 Republican National Convention, because the still powerful GOP continues to be a propitious vehicle for the marauding legions of backwardness and ignorance. They may have been defeated by and large in the latest round of national elections. But, to them, this was merely a set back and we can be sure they are already regrouping for their next assault on reason.
In the current transition back to a liberal Democratic Party-led government we must not allow ourselves to become complacent, over-confident or narrowly factional in our pursuit of a progressive realization of the Constitutional promise of freedom and equality for all of us.
Recall that, even after Buchanan called on his minions to support George the First that election went to Clinton. But they were far from defeated and eight years later they came roaring back with a vengeance by the name of George W. Bush.
If anyone thinks the reactionary Religious Right will just roll over and play dead while the Obama Administration does its best to clean up the phenomenal mess Bush left in his wake...
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