Archive for November 2016

This was a tough week to be a pipeline fighter. On Tuesday, in the middle of a pipelines communication  storm, I ran home for breakfast (at 3pm!) and stopped to grab the mail. Included with the bills and the crap was a handwritten letter — from me, to me — from a conference I attended last spring.…

Forget about a list of election post-mortems from me. Just bop the bigot: including the bigot within.  Leonard Cohen on the rewards of abandoning hope in exchange for “the lowly practices of self-reform.”  Musings on the anthopocene:  we are conjuring ourselves as ghosts that will haunt the very deep future. Feeling vulnerable? Encrypt everything.  Exhausted by tangled conspiracies? Adam Curtis weaves archival footage into a tapestry of…