War on Christmas or War on Capital
It’s Christmas time! Which means the Right will soon be rolling out the tired meme of a supposed “War on Christmas” along with talk of how far we’ve fallen as a nation. Funny, they get so adamant...
View ArticleMonsanto Put on Trial for Crimes against Humanity in The Hague
via Sustainable Pulse: The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food,...
View ArticleSTOP! KEEP CLEAR!
So, nothing’s wrong right now. But something’s not right: Is it the changing seasons? That undisclosed wet stuff falling from the sky in San Francisco? Mass shootings? (Nah.) The holidays? I took a...
View ArticleGoogle’s Schmidt interviews Uber’s Kalanick: “Ownership is a Massive...
Kalanick speaking at the Le Web conference in December 2013. Gregory Ferenstein via Business Insider: In a rare and far-ranging interview, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt sat down...
View ArticleThe King of Beers Wants to Push Craft Brews out of Your Supermarket
Thomas Hawk (CC BY-nc 2.0) Tom Philpott via Mother Jones: Pity Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-owned behemoth responsible for such beloved US beers as Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra. When...
View ArticleOn, Donner! Er, Pass!
Yeah, it’s still the slow season in the taxi world. And now it’s cold. Christmas cold. And it’s getting rainy, too. El Niño ‘n all… The good news is, after a short fall from Grace relapsing into cough...
View ArticleChurch of Flying Spaghetti Monster approved to perform marriages
It’s official, the Church of flying Spaghetti Monster can now perform marriages in New Zealand. The application from the church of Flying Spaghetti Monster was approved by the registrar-general of...
View ArticleThe Heart’s Well of Memory
Via Gods & Radicals: Take a deep breath and bring your attention a little to the left of your chest, and feel for the beating of your heart. Let its rhythm be your focus. Before you were born, in...
View ArticleAffluenza teen goes missing – Arrest warrant issued
Rich kid, Ethan Couch, who was on probation for killing four people in a 2013 drunk driving wreck is missing. The teeen that claimed “affluenza” as a defense – missed a scheduled probation check-in....
View ArticleFolk Magick as Insurrection
Source: facebook.com/TheConjureHouse Via Gods & Radicals: “For me, wherever I go, I know my natural and eternal environment, and I know it as part of me and me of it. Beyond whatever we think,...
View ArticleThe False Flag Formula – 15 Ways to Detect a False Flag Operation
Makia Freeman via Waking Times: A false flag formula is becoming readily apparent in the face of so many mass shootings and bombings in the US. The phenomenon has become so commonplace in the last 3...
View ArticleA Best Buy for Tiny Tim
Even cab drivers get a day off, for family… — Walking into Best Buy with my younger boy on Saturday, to procure the kid a 32″ flat screen in the spirit of Christmas, we spot a bright yellow Best...
View ArticleCompassion, Christianity or Consumerism? The True Meaning of Christmas
Cortland Pfeffer & Irwin Ozborne via Waking Times Christmas has become symbolic of all that is wrong with our society. Much like the Grinch, whose heart was three sizes too small; our hearts have...
View ArticleCDC Investigating New E. Coli Strain at Chipotle
Federal authorities are investigating a new E. Coli strain linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been grappling with an outbreak that has...
View ArticleThe Matter of the Gods
Via Gods & Radicals: This essay by Jonathan Woolley is among the great works published in A Beautiful Resistance—Everything We Already Are, available in print or digital. Roy Cohn: What’s it like?...
View ArticleThe Virtuous Circle of Fantasy
Dan Lemire via h+ It has long been observed that progress depends on the outliers among us. Shaw’s quote sounds a true today as it did in the past: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the...
View ArticleWalking into the Darkness
Via Gods & Radicals: “Many fear the fall of empires for the same reason. They look at the erosion of capitalism’s power in the world and fear that chaos will follow. Forgetting that Chaos is the...
View ArticleThe Other Gods
Via Gods & Radicals: “Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they...
View ArticleA Blue Christmas
It’s my last day driving before heading back east for Christmas. And I’m not feeling very well. (Cough! Cough!) Digression: Can someone help me with this “back east” thing? Are we talking “back” as in...
View ArticleCrafted Recordings Podcast Episode 5: The Crazy Herbalist Meets Rosemary
Dr. Bones is back on the airwaves with a conjure sermon to kick your teeth in!!! How are YOU relating to nature? How are YOU connecting to the world around you? Need some of the Dr’s prescriptions?...
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