Reading--Chickens in your Backyard, The Beginner's guide to Anarchy and The Survivor Personality---enduring the heat and the drought here on a daily basis...storing MRE's...dehydrating vegetables from the garden...fighting off, as best I can the brain death numbness of work....and like everyone else, watching our government and economic system twirl into the death spiral...

I have been fighting a general sense of malaise off for 14 days now---there seems to be no purpose in anything that I do, as well as a lack of enjoyment....this seems to run concurrent with the people I deal with on a daily basis as well...there seems to be an undercurrent of something i cannot describe both within and.....out there...

The British government is amazed and dumbfounded they say, that when the concentration of wealth is in a few grasping hands, people will take any opportunity to obtain what is denied to them. Their response, of course, is that more control is necessary.

The American religious right wing conservatives are at war with the Taliban because they are so much alike, not because they are so different.

We are forced into stock based retirement plans for our old age by the elite class---then forced to watch as they steal it...........

The field of American Republican candidates for President are debating to show which one of them hates the poor, the sick and unemployed the most..........and therefore deserves the nomination of their party......

It is only on the Internet that you can watch a semi-normal human blogger, go from simply confused, to outraged, to revolutionary----- somewhat like tracking the downfall of a society in microcosm.....

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm