I’m not a farmer, not even a gardener, but I have been planting seeds. Below is a picture of ground cherries, a food I’d never seen until a few years ago and never dared try until the summer before last. But of late I’ve made a point to try just…

They gathered that day upon a hill, the forces of light amassing for the final fight against the forces of darkness and fascism. Viewed from above it appeared that the hill was full of pink flowers, so many of the people wearing pink hats. Rainbow flags waved in the breeze…

Are You Willing To Sacrifice Convenience To Oppose A Genocidal And Ecocidal System? At a certain point you have to ask yourself if you’re going to live your life in support of the system or in opposition to it. Whatever rewards that might be gained by supporting the system, it…

(Inspired by Leo Tolstoy, shaped in part by the influence of Caitlin Johnstone) I don’t understand how a society so obviously headed towards self-destruction can be so unwilling to deviate from accepted narratives in order to entertain new ways of thinking. I see the human race, no matter what surprising…

There once was a small spark of life in a small community somewhere in the vast and infinite universe. This tiny little speck of life was really no different than those he knew, and yet he could not help feeling a little different. You see, he couldn’t help noticing a…

I measure a person’s intellectual honesty by their ability to give the opposing side credit when they get something right, and by their willingness to admit when they themselves got something wrong. …

The headline I read today was “Climate concern in Wisconsin is more common than you think”. In it, it says that “up to 90% of Americans underestimate how much people care about climate change”. “While 62% worry about climate change and support policies, they believe they are in the minority…

Thoughts written in 1969 by an editor of a book of articles on Fascism (John Weiss) that are worth considering today (with a few comment of my own): Editor: “The German middle classes were the very model of the famed ‘achieving ethic’ of the western European middle classes. By self-discipline…

If you don’t pay for the news you receive, what you receive is not news, it is propaganda. Propaganda is free, just like slop is free to pigs. It’s not given because they appreciate you as a living being, it’s given in order to turn you into sausage at some…