10/03 Kintpuash (Captain Jack)
Kintpuash (Captain Jack) was a Modoc leader who was hanged on 10/03/1873, ostensibly for murder. He would’ve made a great tragic hero except that he was not in the least fictional. He is remembered...
View Article10/10 World Mental Health Day
What is mental health in an insane society?"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"?~ J. Krishnamurti Conformity for the sake of conformity, and Normality for...
View Article10/17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Bwahahaha. Not if the US has anything to say about it or anything do do with it. Afterall, our entire sanctions regime is intended to...
View Article10/24 - United Nations Day
It is United Nations Day. The UN was founded on this day in 1945. It's utility and efficacy, however, are premised upon the member states and their mouthpieces acting with honesty and goodwill, which...
View Article10/31 is Samhain (north)/ Beltane (south) / Halloween (sundry)
Today is Samhain in the northern hemisphere, and Beltane in the southern one. This is an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest season and the beginning of winter. Some refer to such...
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11/7 - October Revolution Day
While searching Flickr for a photo to use here, I found a surprising number of photos relating to the Russian Intervention, which is officialese or something for the U.S. Intervention in Russia (on the...
View Article11/14 - World Diabetes Day
World Diabetes Day is another awareness day, which I find to be a bit puzzling. The only people who matter in the US are the wealthy, and, as members of the investor class, they are surely aware of...
View Article11/21 - World Television Day, snort, heh
Television is one of those inventions that initially showed great promise of being of potential benefit to humankind but, in the end, did nothing of the kind.Television is a medium because anything...
View Article11/28 - Hawaiian Independence Day
The above flag is the flag of the short lived Kingdom of Hawaii which was formally recognized as an independent state by Joint declaration of Both England and France on November 28, 1843. The US, of...
View Article12/05 - World Soil Day
It is World Soil Day. What can one say, this is borderline fatuous. Industrial agriculture destroys the soil. If we humans wish to have significant amounts of healthy soil remaining, we have to abandon...
View Article12/12 - National Ding-A-Ling Day
It's National Ding-a-Ling Day... I ain't touching it.What else is there? Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts? Not sure about that either, in our perpetual and seemingly increasingly censorious society...
View Article10/03 Kintpuash (Captain Jack)
Kintpuash (Captain Jack) was a Modoc leader who was hanged on 10/03/1873, ostensibly for murder. He would’ve made a great tragic hero except that he was not in the least fictional. He is remembered...
View Article10/10 World Mental Health Day
What is mental health in an insane society?"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"?~ J. Krishnamurti Conformity for the sake of conformity, and Normality for...
View Article10/17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Bwahahaha. Not if the US has anything to say about it or anything do do with it. Afterall, our entire sanctions regime is intended to...
View Article10/24 - United Nations Day
It is United Nations Day. The UN was founded on this day in 1945. It's utility and efficacy, however, are premised upon the member states and their mouthpieces acting with honesty and goodwill, which...
View Article10/31 is Samhain (north)/ Beltane (south) / Halloween (sundry)
Today is Samhain in the northern hemisphere, and Beltane in the southern one. This is an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest season and the beginning of winter. Some refer to such...
View ArticleClik here to view.
11/7 - October Revolution Day
While searching Flickr for a photo to use here, I found a surprising number of photos relating to the Russian Intervention, which is officialese or something for the U.S. Intervention in Russia (on the...
View Article11/14 - World Diabetes Day
World Diabetes Day is another awareness day, which I find to be a bit puzzling. The only people who matter in the US are the wealthy, and, as members of the investor class, they are surely aware of...
View Article11/21 - World Television Day, snort, heh
Television is one of those inventions that initially showed great promise of being of potential benefit to humankind but, in the end, did nothing of the kind.Television is a medium because anything...
View Article11/28 - Hawaiian Independence Day
The above flag is the flag of the short lived Kingdom of Hawaii which was formally recognized as an independent state by Joint declaration of Both England and France on November 28, 1843. The US, of...
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