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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.”

Is it really any surprise that corporate enforcers are carrying out the corporate agenda in the Middle East?
These are the goons Abbey wrote about in Good News. Welcome to the future.