“The poor we have always with us…” the holy book says. But sometimes things happen that are just so beyond the reckoning of men that lives and communities are destroyed. Wars and insurrection in our backyards, change of climate, and pandemics, for instance. All of which happen to be threatening, at the moment, or already… Continue reading Dear HARK, Don’t Sit On The Money Please
Month: January 2021
The Nuclear Monster Living in Fayetteville
Somewhere deep in the halls of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas there’s a lab designing nuclear weapons. It’s true. We know it because of a publication recently released by ICAN: “Schools of Mass Destruction: American Universities in the US Nuclear Weapons Complex” https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ican/pages/430/attachments/original/1574113227/ICAN-Schools-of-mass-Destruction_nov2019.pdf?1574113227 ICAN is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear… Continue reading The Nuclear Monster Living in Fayetteville
What I can’t get out of my mind
I can’t seem to get it out of my head. I’m sitting here quietly, trying to rest my mind and prepare for the meeting coming up. But there are ghosts raging through my head that won’t be laid down. They’re apparitions from the insurrection last week. They rage and rant. They scream and chant. The… Continue reading What I can’t get out of my mind
A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax
Wednesday Jan 6. We won’t forget that day very quickly. In spite of their protestations today that all the violence was from BLM and antifa, (what?) the Proud Boys and Q-Anon people showed their colors. It was, I guess, the “storm” Q-Anon has been planning for since 2017. For awhile all their fantasies got played… Continue reading A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax
The Joy of Bingeing on 2021
One great pleasure that’s emerged since the election has been that Donald Trump has not been on my mind or dominating my Facebook feed. That’s probably what’s making him most crazy now. He didn’t care if it was agony or ecstasy as long as we were focused totally on him. I look back at my… Continue reading The Joy of Bingeing on 2021