Son,
Shocked, but not surprised.  That is often the reaction of intelligent people when bad things happen.  A very bad thing is happening on our planet.  Poverty and hunger have become so devastating that the statisticians now refer to a segment of the human population as ‘the bottom billion.’
We are talking about people who live on [...]

Son,
In 1979 the Republican Party formed an un-holy alliance with the evangelical right wing.  They hit that tar baby right square in the fat mouth of devil worship.  Or is it the other way around - The Evangelicals signed a deal the the Republican Devil?  Unlike Faust, neither will survive the deal with the devil.
In [...]

Son,
I read your post on Freegans with great interest.  The interest of a father and grandfather, and the interest of one who was once called a hippie.
Back in my hippie days many of us thought of ourselves as the first great generation to “change the way we think about our culture,” to quote your post.  [...]