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For more, see my piece on Gore and Inconvenient Truth – click on one of the links above…

As I have watched modern conservatism degenerate into an ideology condoning, even glorifying, torture, aggressive war, political absolutism, and worse, I have wondered about the basic mental health, even sanity, of people like Bill Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Clarence Thomas and many others. FireDogLake has just provided a thought provoking blog on…

From March 2 to 4 I will be a featured speaker at the Toronto Pagan Conference. It will be held at the appropriately named Valhalla Inn in Toronto. For information on reservations and special rates, go here. I will be speaking on the following subjects: 7:10 – 8:50 PM, Friday “The Return of the Divine…

ConVocation XIII: “Sacrifice: Instrument of Change” I will be a guest of honor at Convocation XIII in Detroit at the Hilton/Troy in Troy, Michigan. The Convention rate is $81/noght. Use “CVC” when making reservations. Fri from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM I will speak on Sacrifice, Death, and the Cosmic Potlach Death is Life’s greatest…

UPDATE BELOW I just saw Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. His site is here. Roger Ebert wrote: “In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to…

One of the most depressing things about the past six years has been the unending hagiography received by George Bush and his friends from the corporate media and conservative whores fattening at the Republican trough, and the public’s acceptance of it. It seemed as if Americans had forgotten that we are a free country where…

David Brin, my favorite militant secularist, has some wise words on politics today on his blog. (Other than his usual little poke at the spiritual. But that is another discussion.) Among them are: All you have to do is imagine what the “first liberal” would say, if he were here today. Adam Smith would look…

My blog has been silent for a while. First was the end of the semester rush, as papers, exams, and deadline piled on. Winter break then took me to Maine and Quebec, where I learned to ski (barely) at a marvelous resort east of Quebec City: Mont Sainte Anne. Soon afterwards I caught a nasty…

At Pop!Tech Stewart Brand described three broad categories of environmental thought,: romantics, scientists, and engineers. All three are essential. As is perhaps to be expected at a conference on leading edge technology, Brand emphasized the important contributions the last two categories of environmentalism can make. And he is right. But, and this is an important…

Stewart Brand is one of the most fascinating thinkers and doers to arise form the 60s. From his early involvement with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, here and here, to his editing the Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly (later Whole Earth Review ), founder of the Global Business Network and the Long Now…
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