Jack Burns Lives!

Well, so much for my plans to relocate to Austin or Marfa, Texas. Both places are progressive and liberal, although virtually lost in the vast sea of conservative idiocy that permeates the rest of the state.
The final blow, the one that convinces me the state has completely fallen off the cliff of reason is [...]

Everyone has their own version of the “certain” collapse scenario. Peak Oil theorists, conspiracy theorists, Glenn Beck, even Forbes. Edward Abbey wrote about the collapse of civilization. I’ve written about it, but I’m just a nobody getting my ideas from other people. I just like to spread gossip, because it gives me something to [...]

A recent report about rioting in Greece mentions “black clad, mask wearing” “stone throwing anarchists.”
Well, of course. Everyone wearing black, wearing a mask and throwing shit is an anarchist.
But why should I continue to be surprised, since anarchism (decentralized, democratic governance by the people and for the people) is in fact the antithesis [...]

People are mad in America. Not that we haven’t been mad about various things throughout our history. We’ve had a history of anger and violence from day one, but the violence meter has shown a high degree of variance in history. Sometimes it’s at much higher levels than others, but we do seem to be [...]

Who would have thought Detroit would be the city leading America to the post-Peak oil, mega-capitalist, industrial age?
Detroit is embarking on a plan that would reduce the size of the city and restore its blighted core to a greener, more rural landscape that more closely resembles the area before the Age of Oil. [...]

Perhaps we’d be better off with a King or a Queen. As Abbey said, we shouldn’t “…entrust the management of our lives to “kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” Just drop the King part.
Why?
After years of living in the The Bible Belt, where The Good Book apparently rules all, I’m convinced there [...]

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town’s in trouble.-Edward Abbey
At a House Budget Committee meeting last Wednesday, second term Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said that the Fed will “not print money” to pay for United States burgeoning debt. That’s the traditional way for [...]

My dear wife has to go in early today to hear an announcement from her employer. A huge corporation that sells a completely unnecessary and unhealthy product that uses prodigious amounts of water in production and an equal amount of fuel to ship their shit over the globe.
It’s been a bone of contention for [...]

Spring fever here in the Mississippi Delta…. We had bright sunshine yesterday and will again today. The birds are singing like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir this morning, as they dart about gathering nesting materials and food in preparation for raising their offspring. Chipmunks are warily poking their heads out of their holes, hoping to fill [...]

The best instituted governments carry in them the seeds of their destruction: and, though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour they live is an hour the less that they have to live.”-Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, 1738
The Course of Empire is a five-part [...]