Push Capitalism - Bill Moyers interviews Dr. Benjamin R. Barber on how capitalism threatens American democracy.

A classic study in obedience.
For anyone who doesn’t know, the Milgram experiment was a study of the extent to which humans will act against their conscience when placed under pressure from an authority figure. The man sat in the chair is the subject - he has just been introduced to another “volunteer” (who is in […]

The Way I See It #224
Darwinism’s impact on traditional social values has not been as benign as its advocates would like us to believe. Despite the efforts of its modern defenders to distance themselves from its baleful social consequences, Darwinism’s connection with eugenics, abortion and racism is a matter of historical record. And the record […]

Missoula County commissioners voted Wednesday to narrow the scope of a ballot initiative that deprioritizes adult marijuana crimes, despite the unwieldy presence of community members who opposed any changes.
The tone of the hearing shifted when Van Valkenburg said that he had proposed the amendments because of a “gut feeling” that Missoula voters were not “detail-oriented” […]

Here’s an unsettlingly brilliant carto-visualization of the increasing violence in Baghdad - The very same Baghdad that pResident Bush claimed had reached the end of “major combat operations” in 2003.
If this isn’t combat, I don’t know what is.

Together we won the first round in the battle for Net freedom. But the phone and cable giants are launching a counterattack. We need to raise the alarm and send a clear message to our new Congress: Make Net Neutrality the Law in 2007 - Save the internet!

Thanksgiving Prayer by William S Burroughs
Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To […]

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