Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Lelu and Janey go to Ireland
Somehow a couple months ago when Leana and I decided we’d travel together to the UK and Ireland, we had this idea that planning where to go, what to see, and where to stay would be easy — just show up, decide, and we’re good to go. Now after having spent about four weeks where […]
Sunday News
28 June 2009 This morning was the strawberry festival at one of the bigger farms in the area. We went early to pick (aka eat) for a while, then wandered around to enjoy the feeling of a summer fair: old tractors to gawk at, greenhouses full of fresh-smelling flowers, hippies and their hippie children, horse-drawn […]
US History you have never heard
Last week was Statia Days… a celebration of the island and, ironically, of their important part in the American Revolution. It was strange to be in a totally non-American country but still I basically felt like I was at some go America patriotic celebration. So here’s the history, more or less. During the early American […]
Update
Today I watched on TV as the world turned upside-down. It’s interesting that just this week I’ve been treading a book entitled “Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction”. 1 I figured it would be a nonpartisan and digestible discussion of how capitalism works. But it’s turned out to be an intellectually written academically supported version basically […]
Revolutionary Ideals
12-12-07 I’m reading Che’s motorcycle Diaries, although translated into english, and I am finding myself identifying and learning a lot from him, not as the symble or cult-ideal, but as a person. I do know that I want to be a revolutionary, not with guns but with ideas; traveling and experiencing, trying to create a […]