Peace-A-Rena

I’m breaking one of my cardinal rules and pasting in a post from another site in toto. It’s a powerful rant by Greg Palast, provoked by the recent fires in California, and the government’s response to them. I have a feeling he won’t mind. ‘Course, I’m not alone, soonerthought did the same thing, […]

For news report, see story about this event at Oklahoma Indymedia, Gold Star Fathers Call for Peace at Oklahoma City Rally.

I just posted the minutes of last Sunday’s annual meeting of the Green Party of Oklahoma, along with some pictures I took, on the party’s web site. We had a lot of fun while tending to our pressing business, including ballot access reform, and I think that comes across in the pictures.
They are a small […]

A number of Oklahoma legislators are knocking themselves out in rudely and publicly refusing a gift of a Quran from a group of Muslim Oklahomans. Another class act for the citizens of our state to be proud of. Not.
I was glad to see that the Speaker of the House, Lance Cargill, with whom I usually […]

I’m not ashamed to say that I was — and still am — a huge fan of a television drama that was aimed at teenagers.
My So-Called Life was not your average teen series. It wasn’t even average TV fiction. In my opinion, and I’m not alone, it was the best fiction ever made for American […]

CNN’s mega-hyped special series on the environment, called Planet in Peril, and hosted by Anderson Cooper, is sponsored by Conoco Phillips.
I haven’t been watching the series, just caught a glimpse after Countdown tonight, enough to catch the sponsorship info. But someone who did watch said this:
It was disturbing to see the onslaught of American Petroleum […]

Reuters photo
My friend Desiree gets right in the face of Condoleezza Rice, who is, indeed, a “war criminal.”
(Tried to embed the video, but had technical problems.
Updated, with photo from Reuters.)
Update 2: Reuters story
Update 3: This AP photo is better, due to the angle (and Rice’s expression).

This cartoon makes me think of my Quaker friend Christine O’Brien, who died last November ending a beautiful life, deeply lived. We would have had a great conversation about it, laughing, talking about Zen koans, Quaker meetings in which not a word is said, but everyone feels connected and full of love at the end, or about brief but […]

This is so cool! Those little bots keep going and going and going ….
NASA announced it was extending for the fifth time the mission of Mars space probes Spirit and Opportunity, in their indefatigable exploration of the Red planet.
The two robots touched down three weeks apart on Mars in January 2004 for an expected 90-day […]