There is so much to be angry about. My mother shovels snow to the stench of shit because a factory farm has been setting up shop within sight of the home where she raised me. After describing her dilemma, she announced that she just paid her taxes, taxes my representatives have sent to the Israeli [...]
Archive for January, 2009
This is something I wrote around New Years
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One Person’s masochism is someone else’s comfort
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Supposedly, Wisconsin is in the grip of a bone chilling cold front. The words of caution didn’t deter me from going out to enjoy today’s sunshine. I walked around the neighborhood and was surprised at how warm I felt, in spite of being well bundled
I decided to visit my place on power on the shores [...]
Reading, pausing, reading
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am taking my second break from the book that I’ve been devouring, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. I bought it the night that Naomi Klein visited my town. She delivered a riveting speech to a packed lecture hall. It was her first public address since the November elections. Afterwards I just [...]
Dust to Dust
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of people are disappointed with President Elect Obama’s nominations for executive jobs. The latest groan I’ve heard is over Tom Vilsack, former governor of Iowa, darling of the agribusiness biotechnology industry and Obama’s pick to head the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The choice of Vilsack is doubly disappointing because there had [...]
