Kudos to Al Gore for making an accessible and passionate presentation of what’s happening to our planet and for dropping the petulant, whiny flatness that characterized his campaign for the presidency, but he leaves out one very large fact that is really just too depressing to think about:
The population of the planet earth today is [...]

Just as I wrote the last blog, I received this email. Maybe things are starting to move.

Did you VOTE for PEACE?

Click here to order your favorite anti-war sign now!
It’s easy: just order your sign online, and then pick it up at the protest. We’re also looking for volunteers to help [...]

Political humorist, Will Durst, writes about W’s new way and its negligible chances of actually being a way forward in this January 16, 2007 column. To read it, click here.

I’m curious though. If now, 7 out of 10 Americans agree this is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time with [...]

My wife and I are slowly making our way through When the Levies Broke, Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee’s nothing-if-not-thorough account of what happened as, during and after Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in late August, 2005.
The documentary is long and grim and in some ways, as despairing a film as the events [...]

I just cant seem to muster any enthusiasm for politics right now that lawmakers left and right seem to be waking up to the disaster we elected (more or less) and his ill-advised adventures in the Muddle East.
This is a good time instead to direct your attention to the Blob, a growing gathering of writing [...]

No better collection of authentic American folk music have I listened to than Johnny Cash’s American IV and American V. The songs and performances are just so deep and inspiring and make conspicuous the fluff of even exciting modern singer-songwriter material. I heartily and highly recommend them.

Greetings from Bennington, Vermont. I’m back at Bennington College for a weekend of lectures, readings and visiting with friends.  End of year break and time to recharge or unclog my bloggeries.  More Tuesday…