A point to ponder
With corporate profits at fifty year highs at the same time that unemployment is at fifty year highs, one would think that if it were true that the rich and “business” were the “job creators” we would literally be drowning…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Thomas Ware
Censoring a cartoon
Local “newspapers” The Bend Bulletin and The Portland Oregonian are censoring this week’s Doonesbury cartoon strip about Texas’ (and other’s) state enforced rape pre-abortion ultrasound laws. And yawl’ thought we were just a bunch of mamby-pamby liberals around here. Here’s what’s in the strips (read them…
Environmentalists risk Oregon forests, miss opportunity
Here on The High Desert we have as a fairly evenly mixed result of a hundred years of misplaced fire interventions and thirty years of total opposition to any kind of forest intervention activity an incredibly dangerous situation – a…
Cascadia. A place apart
Historically, the people of each land base have been an integral element of that place’s life. We need only examine the ecologically adaptive cultures of indigenous populations to witness this. In the dominant culture, we have lost our way. We have…
Repeating history …
“Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created; the present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out just as we figure a mathematical problem.” ~ Hon. Charles Lindbergh, Sr., 1920 What’s the word I’m looking for? It’s…
Supernatural? Unreal? Enchanted?
Interesting news analysis on Iran in today’s New York Times: Dispite a decade of war, most Americans seem to endorse the politicians’ martial spirit. In a Pew Research Center poll this month, 58 percent of those surveyed said the United States should use…