There are many places that people vote, but from my experience the two places that are the most common are schools and churches. Now the former seems understandable, you use a public facility for the vote for a public office. But the latter sees rather strange; I don’t understand why people don’t fight over this. [...]

I have recently been thinking about how I, living in America as a well to do person, can do my part in changing the lives of the poor and needy of the world. Within the political climate of today many are thinking of how their vote next week can affect their lives without really worrying [...]

I came across this through another site’s link to it. I noticed that McCain was acting strange during the debate, but I didn’t know what to make of it. Here is just a tidbit: I think people really are missing the point about McCain’s failure to look at Obama. McCain was afraid of Obama. It was [...]

Conceiving of man as the rationally thinking being/animal has caused us to think of people as the only animals who think. This has put a great divide between us and the rest of the nature. It is thought of as us and then the rest of nature. With the inception of the industrial age, new [...]

I came across this article today, which describes the false link of work and virtue within American Capitalistic culture. It is a long article but at least worth skimming; I found the article got better and better, reaching what to me was, the climax at the end. What I found especially interesting in the second [...]

Yesterday I read a very interesting essay from a book titled The Marxian Legacy, which included a discussion about the tension of revolutionary writing between: theory and praxis, present and future. Basically when Marx, or any other revolutionary theorist, writes he is talking about the present and how it structured and also talking about the [...]

It seems to me that things have changed as of late. Any of the various news sources that I regularly check have been talking about practically nothing. It seems to be going round and round about the ‘hot topics’ like the war in Iraq, terrorism, and even more ridiculous things about the squabbling among Democrats [...]

I have been reading through Howard Zinn’s “The People’s History of the United States.” It begins with Columbus and follows the history of the United States until the present. Most of the history he describes I was already familiar with, i.e., the struggle of the Indians, slavery, civil war. Something that I really wasn’t familar [...]

I’ve been reading an really interesting book on conservation ecology. “The Future of the Wild” describes how conversation ecology has progressed in the United States during the 20th Century, where it is now, and what steps we should be doing for the future. But I don’t want to bore my non-tree loving friends with such [...]

So BBC has an article stating how there have been 25,000 civilians killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war. There’s questions about how much was caused by terrorists and how much was done by the US. The stats that they are giving say that something like 37% of the deaths were caused by [...]