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Yep, It’s one of those again.

One of the interesting things about these disruptions of democracy is how many of the hooligans are older.  Most are on Medicare, many are eligible for, and use, the VA.  Both are government programs with few critics other than the terminally ideological.  Both are superior to the private alternatives.  Yet these ignorant beneficiaries of government…

I have long been intrigued by the fact that so many religious traditions have believers who, like me, are a part of that tradition because of powerful personal spiritual encounters.  Mine was a close encounter with a Goddess at a Midsummer Sabbat many years ago.  Christians tell of their conversion experiences.  Practitioners of African diasporic…

In early 2000 I had completed a manuscript on salmon and sustainability, learning in the process never to eat anything from a salmon farm.  I was planning another manuscript on forest conservation and some more articles on democracy as an emergent order.  Those latter would have been very abstract ‘social sciencey’ stuff for the most…

Our Lammas ritual was the best I have attended in years.  Among its many charms was a song we sang: The Harvest, by Rick Hamouris.  It really captures the spirit of the time for me, and I pass it along.

Brooks Bothers rioters, teabaggers, professional agitators, and resume padding thugs.  It’s all here.

UPDATES I – IV  on Blackwater and the accuracy of these reports below the fold. I have long thought Blackwater was one of the scariest and most subversive institutions the Bush regime established within the US.  Highly armed, lethally trained, militantly Christian at its top, and replacing the Army in many things, in my view…

There is a well orgnized corporate funded attack on Democratic Congresspeople’s efforts to meet with their constituents in ‘town hall’ meetings – including shouting down citizens who ask questions the Republican fascists don’t support. It is supported at the top levels of Republican leadership.  At least one Congressman has had to be escorted from the…

David E. Oliver asked whether Wiccans would cast a curse to ” stop someone who is going to committ murder?  Sometimes doing harm is only way to fight evil. Do pagans believe in evil?”  I promised him a thread, and here it is.

Lindsey Beyerstein over at Majikthise provides more information about the utter hypocrisy and genuine nastiness of the triumph of “pro-life” forces in Nicaragua in outlawing abortion for any reason whatsoever.   . . .  the law makes it a crime to save the life of the mother using treatments that are contraindicated during pregnancy, like chemotherapy,…
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