Editorials.

The Help Africa Petition Have a look, this month, at Michael Wills’ article about his and his colleague’s attempt to get EU agricultural policy changed, and the money saved spent on African health care. Even as I look at that sentence, I can feel people shutting down.  Not noticing.  Skimming over it.  Moving on to something more interesting, … [Read more...] about The Help Africa Petition

Noam Chomsky is important and really worthy, in an all too unadmirable world, of admiration.  And why?  Because of one simple thing:  whenever our so-called leaders choose to do, with arrogant ignorance, yet another cruel and misguided act, whenever the kind of news comes out that makes the rest of us want to sit down and cry like children, or pound our … [Read more...] about Noam Chomsky and the Second Empire

So there’s a joke that’s been going around the Internet, and as it’s very Exterminating Angel Press, I’m copying it here -- in case you didn’t get it the first time around: A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog … [Read more...] about No Dog Left Behind

21 February 2006   Good and Bad are NOT culturally determined and relative Let’s not be confused.  Good and Bad are objective things.  They are not a subjective experience, any more than Truth and Beauty. There may be many opinions about what is good or bad, what is true or beautiful.  But this does not alter the fact that these are … [Read more...] about Good and Bad are Not Relative

      2nd editorial    7 February 2006 We have gone as far as we can with defining the problem, with naming names and railing against injustice and unveiling corruption, brutality, and evil of all kinds.  The question is:  now what are we going to do about it? All my life, when I have asked the question, “Yes, … [Read more...] about Contra “Because They’re Assholes”