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Shamanic and other spiritual traditions across the world have held subtle energies exist that modern science cannot pick up on their instruments, but that have important impacts on our lives. Not surprisingly, modern secularists disparage these claims because they have never experienced them. One of the best correctives is to teach them to see these…

Rachel Carson has never been forgiven by the chemical industry or the right wing for her efforts to educate the public on the downside of trying to solve pest problems with DDT. When I was invited to attend a meeting of the right wing Mt. Pelerin Society a few years back I was surprised to…

A 3700 mile drive gives a person a lot of time to think without much interruption. And that’s about the distance I drove from far upstate New York to my present landing in Sonoma County, California. Among all those thoughts came one that inspired this blog: the nature of American patriotism. Patriotism is usually treated…

I’m moving to California for a year – back to Sonoma County mostly to write and see what comes my way. For the next couple of weeks I’ll be packing, on the road, or getting unpacked – and my blog gets a lot more spam than comments – in part because I don’t add something…

What follows is an exchange with a man I knew since the sixties who was once a friend and might still become one again – who knows? We shared many good times. He later became a Neo-Conservative with whom I argued many times before our attack on Iraq. Out of respect for him, I have…

Our North country paper, the Watertown Daily Times, published a moving letter on Iraq from a local family whose son was killed while serving in Iraq. “Democrats right to seek end to immoral War” is the headline for a May 3, 2007, letter from the Davey family of Lowville, NY. “We write in response to…

For many of us who are deeply concerned with environmental issues the most frustrating part of our struggle is that while public opinion is largely in our favor, the modern world’s basic institutions are biased against us. They dance to a different, and from an ecological perspective, often malevolent, drummer. Neither government nor the market…

Politically, perhaps the most important talk given at Pop!tech was Juan Enriquez on “Transformation in Power Systems.” Enriquez is a businessman, academician, and best selling author. Curently he is chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, a company researching and assisting startups applying the genomic revolution. He began by describing the sudden break up of the German…

The contemporary “conservative” right is an expression of pathological patriarchy. This movement makes the most extreme case for subordinating women and feminine values to their supposedly manly way of life. But, and in a grim sort of way this is fascinating, they never walk their talk. Not on anything. To give one of a great…

UPDATES BELOW. A California friend sent me the following post by Don Boudreaux, chair of the Dept. of Economics at Virginia’s George Mason University. Boudreaux had sent it to the Washington Times, apparently in response to an editorial. Cool reception “Let’s grant (if just for the sake of argument) that environmental scientists have proved that…
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