Everyone should view the video animation at
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/52591
It illustrates what I knew we were headed for on the first day of the spill.  Given enough incompetence, inaction, and corporate complicity, we are on our way to spoiling the north sea and polluting the British Isles (not that they need any help with pollution).  Ultimately, we could [...]

Republicans and the Tea Party of No
Monday 17 May 2010
TruthOut
by: Arun Gupta, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been to [...]

Monopoly Corporatocracy Replaces Democracy
Dave Johnson January 21, 2010 - 1:39pm ET
From:  Campaign for America’s Future
The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to make George W. Bush President allow large corporations to spend as much as needed to place their candidates in office, so that they will pass laws:

giving them access to government funds
restricting their smaller competitors
allowing [...]

Learning From the Last Decade as We Move Into the Next One

Saturday 02 January 2010

by: David Sirota, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

While I’m loathe to write a top-ten list, if only for fear of falling short of Dave Letterman’s legendary bit, I’m making an exception in this first week of [...]

Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post
October 19, 2009
How About a Little Coverage of the Millions of At-Risk Kids Not Trapped in a Balloon (or Hiding in the Attic)?
No matter what happens in the unfolding legal saga of the Heene family, the most appropriate response to the whole matter was that of Falcon Heene. He vomited. Twice. On [...]

Rep. John Conyers

Congressman from Michigan
Posted: August 20, 2009 02:29 PM

The Huffington Post

Karl Rove, Rupert Murdoch and Media Bias

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove says that I — and others — owe him an apology for allegations that have been made about him during the course of the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into [...]

When you don’t have your camera, write haiku.  A camera could not capture it all anyway.
Old-time Geometric Soul (on a visit to a shape note singing at John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC)

Mountains form green shapes
Shape notes structure bold voices
Music in a square
John Campbell Folk School
Old made new and new from old
Thyme in a [...]

Drizzling morning
Obsolete bumper stickers
New day under way
Long line, aching back
Democracy’s labor pains
New country is born
A warm cup of tea
Election returns
Mounting excitement and joy
The long night of Bush
Seemingly endless nightmare
Has come to an end
A transformation
Cocoon of imprisonment
cast aside; we fly
Limits to growth, change
Self created illusions
Dissolved by ballots
Tomorrow will be
a much brighter day
We have promises to keep

2-12-08

The Year of Haiku

At some point during
The day today, it is one
Full year of haiku

Angry Mother Nature

Thunder is rumbling
The sky grows darker
Nature is angry today

2-21-08

Camping at the Office

Backpack packed, ready
Not to go to a campsite
But to the office

Tripping

Tripping in my mind
Does not require drugs
It [...]

Gold By Don Blanding
My treasure chest is filled with gold.
Gold…gold…gold…
Vagabond’s gold and drifter’s gold…
Worthless, priceless, dreamer’s gold…
Gold of the sunset…gold of the dawn…
Gold of the shower trees on my lawn…
Poet’s gold and artist’s gold…
Gold that can not be bought or sold–
Gold.
I’m a Very Wealthy Man By Sam Broughton
Just a penny in my pocket
Two pennies in [...]