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This weekend marks the 9th anniversary of the “battle in Seattle,” three days of rage that put the anti-globalisation movement on the map. Rather than simply commemorating the event, Mass Climate Justice is ratcheting up resistance to those who refuse to take climate change seriously–that would mean nearly all of your elected leaders with their [...]

It’s only begrudgingly that I ordinarily salute Democrats, but man, I have no problem saying that I’m going to miss this guy. Deeply. Celebrity deaths don’t ordinarily move me, but I’ll admit to feeling more than a little rattled right now. The Right’s always had a field day with his personal life; but I wonder [...]

…And the fourth [angel] poured out his bowl upon the sun, and he was allowed to scorch mankind with fire. And mankind was scorched with great heat… And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and dried up its waters… (Apocalypse 2:8-9, 12.)
 
That’s the Book of Revelations. I’ve just returned from [...]

From all of us to all of you. 
This year’s card:
 
 
Past cards

And the winner is, of course, the War Party.
Isn’t Change wonderful?

Ron English has painted over forty various takes on “Guernica.”
 

Making my way, slowly,  through William Greider’s account of the Federal Reserve under Carter and Reagan (Secrets of the Temple) in a possibly futile attempt to begin to understand the full naure of this, umm, “stimulus” [...]

you knew Lux would have dug those lines, because lightning was mother’s milk to him.

What, asked the ads of my youth, becomes a legend most? Based on his current offering, the epic ”Che,”  Steven Soderbegh’s answer seems to be: perpetuating it.
 
 
 Before going any further, bear in mind: Soderbergh’s “Che,” currently touring art houses in the 4 /1/2 “roadshow” version as well as enjoying a simultaneous general release as two [...]

From Tufts University Medical Center (Chinatown):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Watching this with medical students and faculty was interesting: the line from the Inaugaration speech that drew instinctive applause from this particular gathering was “we shall restore Science to its rightful place.”  They did not cheer the line about “the wholesale redistibution of land and the dispersal of the gentry.”   [...]

 
I always figured that it must be a splendid thing, to believe in something, and I mean most anything, without reservation: wholeheartedly, without qualification, without condition. And to be able thereby to take part in whatever communal ritual affirms that belief, without inhibition: you know,  to bellow “Priestly People” at Sunday Mass, to beat the [...]