These crazed John-Birch-Society sociopaths have basically formed their own Republican party, which wasn’t hard because the Republican Party is ALWAYS for sale to the highest bidder. And they’re busy amassing even more money than they can supply on their own, by bringing in more of their sort of tycoons — the ones who actively look […]
Moral ambiguity is never fun. The fact is that there is no way to buy gasoline and feel good about it. Hugo Chavez wasn’t perfect, but at least getting a fill-up at a Citgo station let me imagine briefly that my money wasn’t going directly to species traitors like the sociopaths who run Exxon and […]
Our continuing hunger for illusory cheap energy is the enabling force behind the corporate sociopaths who are spilling the Earth’s blood over the land. North Dakota, the nation’s No2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None was reported to the public, officials said. […]
Another in the dishonor roll of the world’s most heavily polluted sites is the Niger Delta, at the mouth of the River Niger. Before the nation of Nigeria came into existence, the area was the largest point of export for the slave trade, thereby marking it with bad karma for the centuries to come. Although […]
Gavin Dixon writes about classical music in London. Here’s the opening of a review he wrote of a concert last October by the São Paulo Symphony: This evening’s concert began with a protest, and very musical and well organised it was too. About five minutes before the start of the show, the audience sitting in […]