'Current Affairs' Archive
Only the Pyromaniacs Oppose Sustainability
Climate-induced drought. Deadly heat waves. Overfishing. 400,000 annual premature deaths from coal-soot in China (US ...
Hail To The Chief
On the cusp of this amazing moment in world history, I'm compelled to reflect on what has led us to this ...
The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin’ in the Wind
Turns out Bob Dylan was right after all. A new study by Stanford professor Mark Z. Jacobson (via Stanford News Service) ...
Prop. 8 Protest - A Beautiful Sight
I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a supermajority ...
A New Dawn
After living through the last eight wasted years in America--writing in outrage for seven of them--it's hard to overstate the elation I share with ...
Bias on bias
One-two punch for an election-eve finish. A veteran journalist has decided it's time for him to weigh in on media bias. It seemed the 2008 election had become enough of ...
What about Joe the Plumber?
Since we've been talking about Joe the Plumber in the comments today, here's some background on Joe Wurzelbacher and how he got into John McCain's debate script. Joe Wurzelbacher was ...
Be A Catalyst
Learning to be a great leader is the last area where anyone is a novice all over again. And unlike most training programs, ...
Ashamed To Share A Country…
"Socialism, Communism, go to Russia!" shouts the woman wearing a cross. "He should die," "Socialist Swine," "Terrorist." These are not the epithets of a ...
Red Lenses
What makes you angry? Seriously. What does it take to get you riled up these days? Yes, I'm talking to you. Does the ...
Don’t Vote
This video kinda sums it all up. Get out there, get registered, get an absentee ballot, whatever--VOTE! ...
Fight, Fight, Fight!
Gov. Sarah Palin has burst on the scene with style, guts -- and a penchant for distorting the facts, thanks to Bush's former speech writer who wrote her speech ...
California Prop. 8: Christian Privilege vs. Human Rights
Nothing is more basic to human liberty than the ability to designate one's choice of a partner to be recognized under the law. Nothing ...
No Good Government Says Anything About God’s Presence
It's official, we have another bat-shit crazy lunatic in the U.S. Congress, who seems to have forgotten not only common sense, but the very constitution he's sworn to uphold. This ...
Obama Deserves the Prize
Given the ever-increasing milquetoast flavor of each successive presidential campaign, I had pretty much decided that in my lifetime I would never see a ...
It’s Simple. Stop Lying to your Kids!
Objectivity scares the hell out of people, because facts always trump wishes. I knew that when I started writing for Black Sun Journal 7 ...
Wikileaks 88.80.13.160
UPDATE 03.04.08: The judge has now dropped his order, allowing Wikileaks to be reached by its original URL. Following the internet furor over the case, Julius ...
Why am I Forced to Vote in Church?
As an atheist, I only go to church when I'm forced to. And as a civic-minded citizen of West Hills, CA, that's about twice a year--on ...
Blackwater: Be Very Afraid
On the Bill Maher show this past weekend (which is absolute must-see TV), Jeremy Scahill appeared via satellite to talk about his book Blackwater: The ...
Editorial Slams Public Schools As ‘State Church’
Dayton, Ohio; and Columbia, S.C. - Americans would revolt if the government forced them to join a state-established church. They guard too fiercely their liberty of conscience, guaranteed by the ...
White House Eviscerates CDC Climate Testimony
WASHINGTON - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, ...
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
Marines Enforce Off-Duty Dress Code
It's not quite Iran, but the military fashion police are out in force in America, proving that the Middle West is often more like the ...
Kansas Rejects Coal Plant: Takes Lead on Warming
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment yesterday became the first government agency in the United States to cite carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air permit ...
Not Moral Enough to Kill or Die for Their Country
The Army, Navy and Air Force unwittingly advertised for recruits on a website for gays, who are barred from military service if they are open about their sexual orientation. ...
Nobel Warms to Gore’s Global Campaign
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness ...