Jack Burns Lives!

Happy Birthday, you grumpy, inspiring, enviro-meddling bastard.
With every year that passes, it seems as if we need you even more. You’d say “bullshit,” of course, and say we don’t need you. All we need to do is get up off our fat asses and do something ourselves.
I agree. Yes, we’re pretty much failures. We tried [...]

I’ve always found myself fascinated by images that show emerging plant life in landscapes recently burned to crisp by volcanic eruptions. Even out of what appears to be sheer and utter destruction, life abides. Like a snake shedding its skin for a new scaly coat of armament, the earth renews and recreates itself.
For those [...]

“Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.”

“I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”
-Chief Luther Standing Bear
When confronted with the choice of reading [...]

Ah, a new year. A clean slate, you say. Time to renew and forge ahead.
To hell with that. I woke up with a frown on my face, feeling quite curmudgeonly and perfectly satisfied with that sentiment. After all, let’s take stock of what’s happening in the world.
Gas prices are dropping. Economists and [...]