Jack Burns Lives!

Commentary, ideas and miscellany in the spirit of Edward Abbey

Archive for October, 2005

Let’s Biggie Size It!

Which brings me to this question. Why are Americans so obsessed with everything being big? Especially when it seems painfully obvious that our obsession with bigger is highly dysfunctional, even destructive? Have we learned nothing whatsoever from Katrina?
Big cars, big ass trucks, big highways, big boats, big houses,big skyscrapers, big churches, big stadiums, big [...]

Fighting Terrorism Since 1492

“In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue….”
Today is the day some in this nation honor Christopher Columbus, a very important man in American history. Being such, I thought it was appropriate to do a re-read of one of Howard Zinn’s essays on this wonderful human being.
In his essay “Columbus and Western [...]