Author: jhngwa

My favorite poem, and for some reason I forgot to post it on Memorial Day to my email list, as is my usual custom.  “Dulce Et Decorum Est” A poem by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Bent double, like old beggars under...

I have been somewhat troubled by the whole concept of “peak oil” in that I think it is misapplied as to what may actually be going on.  Below are some excerpts from Doug Henwood’s newsletter Left Business...

Having been visiting sites such as this , Truthout,and DailyKos, a question has been vexing me, concerning the nature of “progressivism.”  Exactly what do progressives stand for?  So I’ve been doing a...

If you are like me — a straight, white, middle class, progressive-minded male — you are concerned/sympathetic/empathetic/angry about the state of African-Americans in this country. But you rarely, if ever, get a...