A new ad-hoc group of citizens has recently coalesced in the Twin Cities, and naturally they made our Favorite Fools list. We are calling them The Active Nonconformists Together Insisting on Free Association and Speech to Confront Injustice and State Tyranny (ANTI-FASCIST). These citizens advocate the people’s right to protest the 2008 Republican National Convention [...]
Goodbye “Jury of Your Peers”
Goodbye “Jury of Your Peers”
The Freedom / Security Balance
During childhood, at least the sort of idealized childhood we all like to think still exists and that we ourselves had, life was, for the most part, without tension or conflict. As a matter of fact, most of us understand the process of “growing up” to be one of learning to deal with conflict and [...]
The Cult Of Work
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
When I was young, my parents read me Aesop’s fable of ”The Ant and the Grasshopper,” wherein, as everyone knows, the [...]
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