What would you do if someone entrusted you with his or her creative life’s work and you had the power to celebrate or denigrate it, and then you found it, meh… so so?
This is what happened to me 4 years this week. When I bought my ukulele, I kinda charmed the owner of the small, independent music store I had bought it from in Walnut Creek, CA
Since the United States and the West has traditionally supported repressive regimes that are pro-Western, have not intervened in crackdowns upon the people in other countries and have a great interest in fossil fuels, the People of Libya formally request that all governments cease and desist all actions that are saving the lives of the […]
So have you heard about the girl who has replaced Charlie Sheen as the top Twitter trending sensation? The girl who is going to be the “next Justin Bieber?” Yes, it’s Miss Rebecca Black. YouTube sensation whose silly little video “Friday” has received 18 million hits this week. She’s been featured all over the internet […]
This has to be one of my more controversial “Heroes”. Ernesto “Che” Guevara was a medical doctor. While still a student he took two rides through much of Latin America seeing first hand the intense poverty of most of the people. He witnessed first hand the assassination of a democratically elected President by CIA backed […]
Back in January, this little headline caught my attention: Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction Discovered. Wow! Now there’s something I’d never heard of before. I read the story and realized that like frequently happens with announcements from the scientific community, it was being sensationalized by the media a bit. Yes, technically, what the researchers were announcing […]
When I was young we used to listen to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM. Willie Nelson was then a member and no one questioned his politics. As I grew older, I began to question my conservative upbringing. Willie Nelson also began questioning his values. He became an “outlaw” and began a new career promoting […]
GLOBAL HUNGER 925 million people do not have enough to eat – more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union; (Source: FAO news release, 14 September 2010) 98 percent of the world’s hungry live in developing countries; (Source: FAO news release, 2010) Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the […]
7 huge reasons why the factory farming industry is seriously flawed (part one)
Again, I am posting these videos primarily for my own purpose. Archiving old stuff from MySpace before it disappears into the uncertainty of that site’s now unsearchable future. The next part (I lost track of the numbering) features a neat special effect involving a toothpick and very small picture of my car and me meeting […]
Posted By:Advocate for Saving Dogs Email now to prevent the deaths of many Turkish strays !! by Avril Simms on Thursday, February 24 I have been contacted by a friend in Turkey .. the municipality of Kadriye are planning to round up all the stray dogs in this area.. they will undoubtably be taken to […]
