Perhaps I live in a fantasy world. It’s a world where the things I consider essential are pretty simple: A reliable food supply Clean, drinkable water Access to affordable quality health care A healthy, sustainable environment for me and all living things to live in Unpolluted air to breathe Access to a good, free education I’m sure there are others […]

25-year old Meghan McCain has some military advice for President Obama: Expand the war in Afghanistan. Her advice comes from solid military experience. She has a brother that was in the military. Her advice comes to him in an essay on the Daily Beast called “My Anger At Obama”. I’m actually not sure why she titled it that way. She […]

Is Malia Obama the resident “dirty hippy” of the United States? The DHOTUS? I think so and I have photographic evidence to prove it. Oh, and may I say I highly approve? In fact, I’d say it’s about time. It started out innocently enough. Who would have thought on Election Day 2008 that this young woman was harboring an inner […]

I’m on strike. I absolutely refuse to go shopping today unless it’s for life-sustaining food or drink. Today is Buy Nothing Day. It’s “sponsored” (promoted?) by Adbusters.org, the organization founded by Kalle Lasn, author of “Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge–And Why We Must” There are events all around the globe. I participated this morning. How did […]

One of the things I am absolutely the most thankful for in my life is my mom. She’s passed now, taken by cancer and a short lifetime of living on the edge. Some of her story can be found at my blog Eclectacopia. “Two North” is a story about one Christmas when my mom was spending time on the psychiatric […]

Those of us that are waiting (not so) patiently for legislative action of one of three “pillars” of the Obama administration’s reform goals (health insurance reform, green energy/climate protection, and education reform) got a bit of seemingly bad news this past week. As Politico, Senators John Kerry and Harry Reid have indicated that work on the climate change bills (yes, […]

Cross-posted at the 1Sky.org Blog. I have spent quite a bit of time volunteering for the 1Sky Campaign through our local Michigan affiliate, Clean Water Action. 1Sky is a well-funded coalition of environmental groups promoting three major intiatives known as “1Sky Solutions”: 5 million new green energy jobs, reducing global warming pollution and a moratorium on new coal plants. This […]

From my Recommended List Daily Kos diary today. Earlier this month, hidden in the din about the HCR debate, the House quietly passed a bill that, if enacted into law, will help secure our country from terrorist attacks on chemical plants and waste & drinking water treatment plants. The bill was H.R. 2868 and is called “The Chemical and Water […]

The battle for the hearts and minds of Americans regarding global climate change is over. Well, according to the lead climate change denier in the Senate, James Inhofe. Pointing to what he sees as the collapse of the upcoming global summit on climate change in Copenhagen and Senate Majority Leader Reid’s postponing of action on the Kerry-Boxer climate change/green energy […]

After I learned that Alaskan blogger Sarah Palin taking her anti-Obama rallies book tour onto our country’s military bases, I thought I’d wander over to Freeperville (the Free Republic) to slog through the muck and slime and see what they think of this. What they think of this is that (a) well, duh, of course she’s going to military bases, […]

Sarah Palin is in Michigan today. Lucky us. Her devotees started lining up last night, in fact. The Sarah! Bus – photo by Rex Larsen | The Grand Rapids Press Why Michigan? Well, according to Palin, it’s because Michigan is where she first “went rogue”. [Michigan is] “the state where I ‘went rogue’ trying to reach out to during the […]