Culture
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President's Day (James Kunstler)
Feb. 16, 2009 -- A creepy feeling ushers in President's Day this year as the suspicion grows that nobody in charge of anything knows what what to do next.
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A Commodity Called Misery (Joe Bageant)
Here in Hopkins Village, darkness has come and brought with it good old Eljay, ready to split a bottle of the local bitters on my porch. The night winds are rising and with them comforting assurance ...
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Poverty of Imagination (James Kunstler)
A striking poverty of imagination may lead to change that will tear this nation to pieces.
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Road Trip (James Kunstler)
There are scores of places that are sitting out there waiting to be re-activated. We need to do this much more than we need to build new freeways to the beach. Suburbia is not going to be abandoned o ...
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Forecast for 2009 (James Kunstler)
The big theme for 2009 economically will be contraction
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Legitimacy Dwindles (James Kunstler)
Dec. 22, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Zounds! Public sentiment toward the accelerating economic fiasco has shifted, seemingly overnight, from a mood of nauseated amazement to one of panicked grievance ...
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People Get Ready (James Kunstler)
Dec. 8, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In the twilight of the Bush days, in the twilight of the twilight season, a consensus has formed that we are headed into a long, dark passage leading we know not wh ...
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Does Mr. O Know? (James Kunstler)
Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They're discouraged by the advisors and cabinet sectetar ...
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VIDEO: Thanksgiving Prayer (William S. Burroughs)
This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong. This is a short film by Gus Van Sant of Mr. Burroughs reading his poem called Thank ...
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Zombie Economics (James Kunstler)
Nov. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Though Citicorp is deemed too big to fail, it's hardly reassuring to know that it's been allowed to sink its fangs into the Mother Zombie that the U.S. Treasury ha ...
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In the Reality Lounge (James Kunstler)
Nov. 17, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The G-20 came to Washington for the weekend and sucked all the air out of the city before announcing that they were really serious about patching all the leaks in ...
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