Where are you, Cesar E. Chavez, why aren’t you coming to finish the struggle you began? Where are you, that the farm workers’ groans don’t seem to matter to you? These days not many remember or care about what Cesar Chavez fought for. It seems... Continue
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In the end, the skein of civilization turned out to be thinner and less substantial than most anyone had expected. Collapse of modern society took only a matter of weeks, not months. Once the electricity stopped the whole of industrial and mechanized society came crashing... Continue
I recently read a Facebook post by a fellow who, just having had an RIFD chip implanted under his skin, described himself as "trans-human." For those of you unaware exactly what an RIFD chip is, you'll find one in the latest version of credit cards... Continue
While the world spins around on its axis, there’s good news and bad news. Humans are shooting bison while they’re also naming them our “national mammal.” Which way is it? Are we killing, culling or protecting? And why pick on the voiceless ones? But more... Continue
Recent events have demonstrated that there is a serious flaw in the workings of our constitutional democracy: Namely, no matter how uneducated, misinformed or stupid they may be, everyone who is a U.S. citizen over the age of 18 can register and vote. (Felons, not... Continue
The history of The Springs in one of change and reinvention. Each of the four hamlets that encompass this special area has a fascinating history of its own and collectively, the region has faced great challenges, from economic to natural to social. For hundreds of... Continue
How funny it is that everybody's talking 'bout The Cloud! English lexicon has caught up with the reality of human consciousness: we have always had our heads in the clouds. Human beings float in a boundless sky of mental and emotional ambiguity from which we... Continue
While I was having lunch with "the guys" I began talking about "how we know what we know." One friend interjected that what I was saying was "too abstract" to be of interest. This has happened to me before, and in such social situations switching topics... Continue
How did we end up here, where citizens of the same country, living and working side by side, are occupying two very different Americas? The RNC felt like ‘Nuremberg on the Cuyahoga.’ After a bumpy start, the DNC convention ended as the ‘Philly Festival of... Continue
By Edwin Reyes -- Argentinean Alfonsina Storni in her poem, Peso Ancestral (translated as “ancestral burden”) describes the pressure on Latino males to act like a man, showing no emotions, because that was how they were raised. For Latinos as a population, that ancestral burden... Continue