The Joy Of Ground Transportation
I stepped out my front door and walked a quarter mile to a bus that took me the first 30 minutes of my trip for just $1.50. I arrived at another Greyhound bus terminal where the shops around the...
View ArticleBitcoin Back Up
Back in 2011, Bitcoin, an alternative currency collectively managed, caught my eye. Currency geeks were getting excited about its character as a purely electronic kind of money. Predictions were being...
View ArticleOur Lady Of The Department Of Water And Power
The American equivalent of Chartres: There are no stone statues or secret ancient pagan altars, but I understand that the windows of the nearby houses are stained.
View ArticleMessage In A Bottle
Woke up this morning. You won’t believe what I saw: A hundred million bottles, washed upon the shore.
View ArticleTrust Tucked Into My Sneakers
Here at Irregular Times, I engage in quite a bit of worrying about the things in life that seem to be going wrong. Today, I’m taking a bit of time to take note of something that’s going right. At the...
View ArticleThe Other Side Of Vast
Tomorrow, I know that I will arrive on the other side of this, but at the moment, it seems impossible that anything so vast can have sides.
View ArticleThe Peace Flag Still Waves
Seen today: The flag of the united states of peace. As I took this photograph, a passerby stopped and asked, “What country is that from?” “It could be from our own country,” I said.
View ArticleA Department of Peacebuilding
Dennis Kucinich has left the U.S. Capitol and is now a professional punching bag over at the Fox News TV channel, but one of his legislative quests continues – the effort to create a U.S. Department of...
View ArticleSenator Brillo Pad
The United States faces a crisis of overspending by the military, decade-long erosion of civil liberties, accelerating climate change, and massive budget cuts threatening education and basic social...
View ArticleThe Twisted Blade Of Nuclear Aggression
The government of North Korea has threatened to use what it refers to as its “right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor” – the aggressor being the United States of...
View ArticleInfographic Teaches Me That Weebles Are Behind Social Media Marketing
Infographics seem to have devolved from the ideal of using visual images to enhance the effectiveness of communicating information to the quick and sloppy replacement of information with cute pictures....
View ArticleLooking For A Vote On The Back To Work Budget?
It’s been said that the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on a wide variety of budget bills aimed at ending the sequestration austerity currently imposed on the USA. Barack Obama and the...
View ArticleRoll Call: Most Democrats Vote AGAINST Progressive Budget Legislation
If you listened to the Democratic Party and its apologists, you’d believe that the United States of America would be enjoying a progressive economic renewal, if only the Republicans could be voted out...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Vote AGAINST Cutting Deficit By 4.4 Trillion Dollars
Yesterday, I wrote about the hypocrisy of the Democrats of the U.S. House of Representatives. The House Democrats say that they want a progressive federal budget, which preserves Social Security and...
View ArticleHow Did Members Of The Safe Climate Caucus Vote On The Progressive Climate Bill?
U.S. Representative Henry Waxman is the chair of the Safe Climate Caucus, an organization of members of the U.S. House of Representatives that claims to be committed “to end the conspiracy of silence...
View ArticleKing Henry VIII In San Francisco
This painting of King Henry The Eighth is in the hallway of my hotel in San Francisco. I am fairly confident that this particular monarch never left Europe, much less traveled to the Pacific coast of...
View ArticleUS Threatens North Korea With Nukes To Warn Against Threatening With Nukes
The government of the United States of America announced today that it has flown B-2 bomber aircraft, capable of attacking with some of America’s many thousands of nuclear weapons, close to the borders...
View ArticleNear Death Experience Memories Are More Packed With Reality Than Ordinary...
Near death experiences are events that are remembered as having been perceived during apparent unconsciousness by people on the verge of dying. Some aspects of individual near death experiences are...
View ArticleIowa Secular Voters Expand Influence Before 2016 Caucus
Conventional wisdom among political commentators has been that, in order to win the Iowa Caucuses, it’s necessary to make a special appeal to zealous religious voters. Barack Obama pandered to...
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