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 [...]

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. [...]

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 idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders-Edward Abbey.
With spring approaching, I find myself once again yearning to head west. To cross the mighty Mississippi and flee to the land of mountains, mesas, deserts, cowboys and Indians. In the interest of balanced reporting, I should also say the land of [...]

At least according to this study. But I’m not so sure I consider myself a liberal these days. Too many liberals are supporting nuclear energy, bank bailouts and war. I much prefer Abbey’s term “agrarian anarchist.” Or even another, an “earthiest.”
Abbey also considered himself a libertarian and was a NRA member; however, I’m not sure [...]

A little over a year ago, there was much hope in America. Many people falsely believed they’d elected “their guy,” a man that would fairly represent the average, standard fare citizen, if there is such a thing. Our first black President. A community activist, liberal and Constitutional scholar. Someone that would stand up against power [...]

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.-Edward Abbey
Ah, the American Dream. An oft repeated phrase we all probably first heard in our youth. The [...]