a whole lotta people holding their breath for a long long time

is not exactly a solution to our economic problems. will big gov just tell us to become austere & eat upholstery after the banks & health insurance bailouts? [at taxpayer expense]

Here's Hoping for a Magic Bullet

i'm not holding my breath.

new redplumjam website is squeezably soft now with 3X more portfolio!

from the trompe l'ouile main photo to the variety & quality of the content to the super-tight registrations & presentation of material- al schaub proves that too far is sometimes way the f- over there and damn if it don't look good still. come and get it.

Redplumjam Redesign March 2010

honest to goodness art made by hardworking [sometimes very dirty] hands.

now even more exquisite redplumjam propaganda

new rehash from the minister of unusual services:

so do we have too many nukes to fail?

as a unit- us- our country flails with a corporate owned government making ridiculous foreign policy decisions for myopic short term gain for certain businesses- with bloated military/contractor appropriations & increased arms deals, normalizing obvious human rights violations & leaving irradiated battlefields- while at home wealth disparity is on the rise- we have failing banking/infrastructure/education/social services/viability- eating very ill sterioded animal flesh and other pesticide laden factory farm foods so that every third kid born [in the U.S.] after 2000 is slated to be a diabetic- all of this amidst a climate crisis that we had a large hand in creating.

is it a wonder that the rest of the world might see a chink in the armor?

Pushing Our Buttons

do we want war and its accoutrements to be our main export? what can we sustain & why?

U.S. Weapons at War

while i agree that the absurd level of citizen-apathy and dearth of resolve that one encounters standing in line or sitting in traffic can be a real buzz kill for any citizen-activist: i do assert that a strong citizen driven grassroots movement propelled easily/inexpensively/democratically/transnationally online- could be the thing that saves more than just the world's richest 1%.

remember: wake up america! means go to sleep

liberty means buy stuff, and more than you can afford. become mesmerized [or better yet be glazed over] by the dramatic presentation of a democracy-like process that governs us. when you're done with your nuk-nuk we've got an iphone for you.

why aren't the democrats any different?
a cool blog about becoming our government

maybe it doesn't seem that crazy yet. but to live sustainably in the next 50-100 years, life will sure be looking a whole lot different very quickly. the successful people will have a strong grassroots foundation, right?