Jack Burns Lives!

A good friend recently asked me why more Democratic politicians don’t stand up to fascist fucks that run our country.
First of all, they’re part of the problem. They support the same system. Just call ‘em Republican Light. They’re all about spreading the wealth around and keeping the military industrial complex rollin’ along. Just like the [...]

I’m so tired.
Tired of writing and bitching about everything that’s wrong in the world. Tired of trying to communicate solutions to wealth building, apathetic, selfish, self-serving fucks. Tired of trying.
Just when I think things are looking up, reality knocks me back down.
Yeah, I guess I’m feeling sort of stormy and cantankerous. Fretful. Dissolute. Like a [...]

Today’s podcast includes a reading from Edward Abbey’s The Journey Home, “Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge.”
For more information on Numa Ridge, click here.
In the reading, Abbey presents an alternative opinion to Derrick Jensen and his call to “bring down with civilization.”

I’ve been reading a bunch of Abbey lately. Earlier in the year, I started going through some of the non-fiction works again, and just recently started the fiction. Finished The Monkey Wrench Gang last week.
Probably won’t do Black Sun again, since I’ve already read it about ten times. Most of the others at least [...]

Marsha and Rumi Making Me Feel Safe
Representative, Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, just sent out her “Summer Report,” which is full of the typical GOP spittle about growth (got to keep the blob moving along), terrorism (got to keep everyone terrified so we can keep military spending sky high) and drilling in ANWR (got to keep [...]

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From the introduction of Edward Abbey’s Good News:

“As each solitary human sought to preserve his own integrity, so each nation strove to ensure its survival at the expense of all others. The fragile webs of a planetary economy frayed apart in an ever-intensifying struggle for the resources to support a worldwide industrial [...]

Jack Burns Lives! Episode 2: When Green Ain’t Green
Last week, a co-worker brought me a copy of dwell magazine, a thick, glossy architectural rags that features million dollar homes and high dollar furniture. The September issue is titled “Green Goes Mainstream.”
It gets kudos for an article titled “Architecture for Humanity,” for featuring an architect that [...]

Jack Burns Lives! Podcast; Episode One: A Reading From “Beyond the Wall,” “A Walk in The Desert Hills”
Well, I’ve decided to enter the interesting world of podcasting, and here’s the first episode.
As this is my first one, I’d ask for a wee bit of patience in case I’ve committed some blunder or major faux pas [...]

8:25 PM in the Lower Delta. The merciful end to a day marked by oppressive heat and high humidity.
As night approaches, I gaze upward to the sky and notice a few birds, the last of the happy hour crowd, heading back to their nests. A dragonfly circles, then quickly zips toward an oak tree and [...]