The fact that I posted about what a screwup McCain is has led some of you to imagine that I’m some kind of yellow-dog democrat - sorry, I meant Democrat - and that I’m going to vote for Obama. Not true. I’m worse than that - I’m something else…. actually, I don’t identify with any […]

Quite a few years ago, I ran across some references to a substance called “Brown’s Gas”… it turned out to be the result of dissociating water: water, as everyone knows, is H2O - its molecules are composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom linked together by sharing a couple of electrons… whatever “atoms” […]

You thought I was talking about the Okie City “truck-bomb”, didn’t you?
Naaah… but the body count’s the same.
What does it all mean?
The Republican Penchant For Rewarding Screw Ups And Failures
JOHN McCAIN - THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY
“Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is scant chance he would […]

“She” is Lara Logan. I have no idea who she is, but she said (or wrote, anyway) these words, and I am ashamed I didn’t say them myself. I would change just one word, to apply them to myself - I’d change “work” to “life”. Other than that… she said it better than I could. […]

Here’s four or five pictures of wooden bicycles. I didn’t know that bamboo was once used for bike frames, but it makes sense… it is light and strong, and you don’t have to dig up ore and refine it to make the bike (I wonder about the spokes, tho’)…
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Or would you have had enough sense to start running for shelter immediately? It’s hard to say what we’ll do when confronted with a sudden, stunning emergency, but… what would you have done? Click on the title above to see the picture… dammit, I’ve gotta see if there’s an easy way to edit the (*&#@$^ […]

Here’s more must reading - it’s at least part of what NOT to do if society implodes and we get a chance to start over…
How Corporations Became ‘Persons’, by Tom Stites
The amazing true story of a legal fiction that undermines American democracy.
By Tom Stites
“Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places […]

Farming 101 - Leo’s Version
I make no great pretense to farming expertise… but I spent some time in my younger years seeing and working with a community of second- and third-generation American farmers of Danish descent. I got to watch, among other things, as their highly co-operative style of life (I’d put it close in […]

This is powerful stuff, from a person who is 89 years old AND STILL TEACHING… the excerpts from the book are shown at the following link. It’s not heavy reading, but the thoughts behind the words - on his side and yours - are going to rock you. I urge you to give this a […]

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
Frankly, this is nothing new. I think it only seems new to those who are “HistIg” -Ignorant of History. It’s immaterial whether that ignorance is active or passive: the fact remains, that some - perhaps most - folks simply are not […]