Women of the Oak Savannahs Opener

Scene from remains of the Valley Fire, Lake County, California September 16, 2015 Napa Valley High aloft the aerialist gripped the climbing rope. Beyond a brownish orange sun went lost in a smoke filled sky. Helicopters, Super-Huey’s thump-thump-thumped eastward to the front. In the tumult of the still out of control wildfire the aerialist startled […]

Billionaires Know Everything

What we can do about our love for life on earth…

Fairer Trade… Looks Like This

Where the Ploys Are… “Income distribution characteristics” is a term to describe how a free trade agreement alters how and where money flows in an economy. It may be true that a new trade deal increases the total amount of money being exchanged between two trade partners, but it may also be true that more […]

The Great Tony Benn Hits it Out of the Park

Click Right Here and Enter into the Truth of the Matter Tony Benn gives a stem winder from over on the other side of the pond. Now 83 in ten minutes time he crushes it. The British lilt in the voice and the humanity of his cause ooze from this talk. Our work is […]

The Empty Vessel

Democracy is an empty vessel. The blanks must be filled in. Want to slow or stop immigration? Do you want low taxes, less regulation and globalize manufacturing and trade? Perhaps more home schooling and charter schools and scrap universities altogether and simply ramp up vocational career schooling. The stock markets of the world are a […]

It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Canary Starts Sizzling…

Setting Sail for a Better Future Let’s head out from here where sanity prevails. First, we have a global manmade climate crisis. Got that? Let’s get our priorities right. Wake up! Next up is worldwide population levels continuing to expand while we wreak havoc upon the support system all these new lives will need if […]

Pass the Beer Nuts… Or How I Learned to Love the End

The Mayan People as Example Our globalized interconnected world was sold as a cure all for every kind of inefficiency of free enterprise. Free markets were going to spread democracy to every corner of the earth. Something went wrong. I know it, you know it; we all know that something is wrong. We are simply […]

Long Hops and Short Stops

“My flight down to Cancun was a little bumpy, but the water landing was very smooth. By the time I swam to shore and got out of my wet clothes and hat a shot of tequila it was like wow… here I am.” The shift is on. I return to San Francisco tomorrow. I have […]

End Stupid Stop Stubborn

More Off the Cuff Links… We take you to the streets of London where students are marching for, “No tuition fees! No education cuts! No debt!” Let’s go to Milwaukee where what passes for progress we have this pathetic excuse for policy being implemented. Sorry folks we can’t get to the new economy everyone is talking […]

Making Show

The world’s greatest lover enjoys doting. They dally, and play a good game of hanky-panky.