The Trail Since 2006
It began with a spark of inspiration from a few kindred spirits scattered along the Appalachian ridges, mostly in North Carolina and Virginia. Back then, we were virtual friends who—for the most part—never shared a physical porch, but we built a digital one together. Some were writers, some were poets, and some were photographers, each of us finding our way through those early “virtual woods” on the internets.
What follows is a collection of my latest musings (and perhaps a bit of blathering), a trail of thoughts that winds all the way back to those first steps in 2006.
Or just meander through my past muses… Just hope the coffee isn’t stale!
Daily Kos: What Did You Expect, America?
Daily Kos: What Did You Expect, America?: “If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail. ” I would normally add something here,…
OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan
OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan: “I note here what is to me a mystery. It is that people with lower IQs somehow tend, in our age, to have a greater apprehension of the meaning of things…
Blowing the Whistle on Diebold — In These Times
Blowing the Whistle on Diebold — In These Times: “The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting system,” warns Kennedy. “Whoever controls the voting machines can control who wins the…
Strategery’ From the Primary Source
The False Hope of Biofuels
I know we are all holding out great hopes for biofuels, but these nagging pieces keep showing up in the papers… The False Hope of Biofuels: “Biofuels such as ethanol made from corn, sugar cane,…
Common Ground: The Shortest Food Chain
Here’s another article on the sustainable foods culture. The tie is to the book by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Looks like another trip to the booksellers for me. Everthing I keep reading about “Omnivore” makes…
Let There Be Law
Let There Be Law: “Let There Be Law The Supreme Court has offered a chance to put the war on terror on solid legal ground. Will Congress rise to the occasion?” One of the basic…
Jim Hightower’s Common-Sense Commentaries
I guess one of the things that really bothers me about this country is the way everyone lives the myth. If you ask almost anyone in the USA, they will tell you they are “middle…
CNN.com – Democrats vow to block pay raises until minimum wage increased – June 27, 2006
CNN.com – Democrats vow to block pay raises until minimum wage increased – June 27, 2006: “WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democrats ratcheted up their election-year push for an increase in the federal minimum wage Tuesday by…
Support Your Local Farmer, Craftsperson, and Shopkeeper
It looks like if there is a common thread running through recent posts it is the idea of buying local. My concern was originally in the way of food. I feel a bit leery of…
In the Senate, Covering Themselves in Old Glory
In the Senate, Covering Themselves in Old Glory: “The Citizens Flag Alliance, a group pushing for the Senate this week to pass a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution, just reported an alarming, 33 percent increase…
House Sacrifices Revenue and Earmarks
The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, June 22, 2006 Thoreau’s Journal: 22-Jun-1851 As I walk the railroad causeway, I notice that the fields and meadows have acquired various tinges as the season advances, the sun gradually using all his paints….
‘Organic’ Loses Its Freshness
Lawmakers’ Profits Are Scrutinized
Pandemic
Minimum Wage / Maximum Pissed
The Carpetbagger Report: “It hasn’t generated a great deal of attention, but congressional Dems are keeping Republicans on the defensive over a minimum-wage increase. At this point, the GOP leadership looks a little flustered. Last…
Our Stories, Mythology in the Making
Stay the Course? What Course?
Jim Hightower | THE ARTFUL DODGER STRIKES AGAIN
Daily Kos: Texas Democrats Go To Court To Keep DeLay On Ballot
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Goodbye to a Legend in His Own Mind
At least US News gets the problem with the economy.
Whatever
Daily Kos: Science Friday: Tis The Season
Daily Kos: Science Friday: Tis The Season: “Science Friday: Tis The Season by DarkSyde Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 03:41:48 AM PDT In the aftermath of the devastating 2005 hurricane season, the following soundbite was…
Jim Hightower | HEALTH CARE MORALITY
Jim Hightower HEALTH CARE MORALITY: “How is it that the richest country with the most democratic ideals of any country in the history of the world has 45 million people with no health coverage and…
Estate Tax Lunacy
Estate Tax Lunacy: “A decades-long campaign by right-wing activists (brilliantly documented by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro in their book ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’) has convinced many Americans that the estate tax…
A List Apart: Articles: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
I was cleaning up my bookmark list this morning and what usually happens when I try happened. I followed an old link that crashed. Then in trying to find a new clean link to the…
The Blog | Bob Burnett: Enemy of the People – Al Gore or George Bush? | The Huffington Post
The Blog | Bob Burnett: Enemy of the People – Al Gore or George Bush? | The Huffington Post: “There’s been a reversal of fortune. Americans are waking up to discover that they made a…
How I spend my days…
I spend the meat of my days tucked away in a quiet, darkened room, staring into twin windows that open up to an electronic world. Those “windows” are a pair of 20-inch monitors—the digital canvas…
Is U.S. Ready for Hurricane Season?
You know as a resident of the Texas Gulf Coast, living less than 5o miles from the Gulf of Mexico I read articles like this and I am worried, very worried… Is U.S. Ready for…
Jim Hightower | REMEMBER AFGHANISTAN
Jim Hightower | REMEMBER AFGHANISTAN: “Gosh, George W has kept us all so busy trying to deal with his disastrous Iraq war and with his build-up for a whole new war in Iran – that…
Molly Ivins
Creators.com – Creators Syndicate: “It would be easier to contemplate a two-year holding period if Bush hadn’t already wasted so much time. Of particular note in this department is ‘the inconvenient truth’ — global warming….
The Carpetbagger Report » ‘I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever’
The Carpetbagger Report » ‘I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever’: Posted 9:42 am I admit that I didn’t follow the ‘controversy’ surrounding the Dixie Chicks very closely in 2003, but I can’t…
Elections Are Crux Of GOP’s Strategy
Elections Are Crux Of GOP’s Strategy: “‘The president’s run into a perfect political storm where the confluence of natural disasters from last fall, gasoline prices, staff changes, the continuing war in Iraq, all are giving…
Why the National Guard?
From The Washington Post Editorial, May 17, 2006 “Why the National Guard?: “Disingenuously, Mr. Bush declared in his address that ‘we have enough Guard forces to win the war on terror, to respond to natural…
A Lonely Warning On Debt
A Lonely Warning On Debt: “‘The question I ask is, what sacrifice are we making? Anyone in the know who is watching us has to wonder about our character, our intellectual honesty, our concern about…
Unseasonable Spring
I was sitting at the kitchen table this morning with the doors and windows open enjoying our unseasonably cool morning, answering email and reading the daily news and views (as in blogs), when my youngest…
Our Government At Work
The Carpetbagger Report “The Washington Post ran an interesting chart this week that every Democrat should memorize. It shows your annual savings under the latest Republican tax cut. Here are the figures: $10,000-$20,000: $2 $20,000-$30,000: $9…
Where I’m From
Fred First asks “Where Are You from?” and adds a template to help answer the question . Check out his page and make your own life poem. Where I’M From by Gary Boyd I am…
Day One of the next stage of my life…
This post was first published on a Blogger.com site then moved over and over until it arrived here… Inventing the Myth as I Go Where am I heading and how will I get there? You…
