Argh! The US on climate change

I have huge prob­lems with the idea of the G8. I don’t think there should be a ruling class like this making decisions for the rest of us. But when those decisions are good things, like rein­ing in the run­away idiocy of their cor­por­a­tions and trying to...

May 1, cinqo de mayo, beltaine

Well, today is May Day, tra­di­tion­ally a day of work­er’s rights. There were ral­lies through­out Cali­for­nia for labor issues and I figure it’s an appro­pri­ate time for me to com­ment on my observations. One of the teens around me right now men­tioned...

The people of the Book vs the people of books

I really like this post from catvin­cent on reli­gion and The Book.  And I think I have a new .sig: “Those three Peoples of the Book are at war again… All three are read­ing their Book more lit­er­ally, less meta­phor­ic­ally. The pages on...

Ah, Howard. Crippling democracy one farce at a time.

From p_cat: HAVE YOU ENROLLED TO VOTE? From April 2007, the Howard Gov­ern­ment will be making it harder to enrol to vote. As of this date you will require numer­ous forms of ID and wit­nesses – a ”100 point” check, sim­ilar to open­ing a bank account – just to...