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The real war on Christmas and why it matters

By December 6, 2012
Bill O'Reilly

Christmas season is making me tired. Every year, I get tired of hearing jaunty, NutriSweet-y jingles that sound like they're sung by Hello Kitty touted as "Chrismas Carols" and played earlier and earlier in the fall. "Here Comes Santa Claus" on November 11 — it's a revolting enough song if you have to hear it once. But do we really need to endure this particular brand of nausea for a full six or seven weeks? And I'm just as tired of hearing Fox News announcers sound more and more shrill … [Read more...]

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Letting go

By June 26, 2012
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We spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and treasure in imposing our will on nature … dreaming of permanent solutions, monuments to our ambitions and dreams. But in periods of slack, decline, or collapse, our abilities no longer suffice for all this management. We have to let things go. – Ernest Callenbach This summer, I'm on an odyssey to five unique intentional communities and ecovillages, including the original hippie commune, Virginia's Twin Oaks, and two communities in Missouri, … [Read more...]

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Love and money; Why Chrisitianity is incompatible with capitalism

By April 27, 2012
Sermon on the Mount

Christianity today is an immensely complex and varied institution. As a religion it self-asserts. But in the hands of anyone, it is plied to less predictable ends. Now, throughout its history, organized Christianity has been ambiguous, to say the least. It's been wielded as a sword in the hands of empires; used to legitimize wars, genocide, and a murderous exploitation of the commons as well as the neighbor it urges us to love as ourselves. And in the modern era, it's been a potent political … [Read more...]

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