Hammer Mill Days

Do we have a quorum? No? Where's Matt, then? Oh, right .... watching the falcons. That's fine. The mansized tuber can sit in for him for the time being. Okay, tubey ... raise your right, uh ... taproot. Oh, hi. Caught me in the middle of a production meeting. We're trying to work out who is going to be the first down the hole ... I mean, the elevator to the center of the Earth. Since this is a question that affects all of us, it must be decided in council. That's right - we are not tree dwellers here, my friends. We are civilized people , okay? And we are familiar with the principles of self governance. At least we know there are such principles. And if you don't like them, well ... we have other principles. I've described Big Green as a creative collective more than once. That's not far from wrong, though the creative part is a little sketchy. Nevertheless, we are very much a worker-run enterprise, operating out of an abandoned hammer mill, wearing r...

Rockets went off on the Fourth of July as usual, though some were not the variety you can now apparently buy in New York State at any of what seems like a million roadside stands. I am of course referring to the launch of the North Korean "ICBM" and the response by the American expeditionary force permanently stationed in South Korea - namely a volley of missiles fired into the sea. The North Korea missile story was teased for a couple of days by the likes of Joe Scarborough, in between his raking over the details of some petty blackmail Trump's flunkies were pulling on him and his partner. Now it's full-court press on North Korea, reminiscent of the kind of rhetoric we heard prior to the Iraq war. The first report I heard started with the term "provocation". It went downhill from there. The fact is, I have yet to hear from anyone on mainstream media programming who doesn't subscribe to the general consensus view that (a) North Korea is a madman aggres...