I was listening to KBOO on the way to work last week-they had an interesting conversation with Sara Robinson. She’s written an essay called America’s Energy Empire. While this isn’t particularly new ground, she does present a compelling case that needs to be more widely heard. And acted upon. By you, you and you.
There’s also this from Democracy Now!. Military censorship at its best-the echoes of ‘Nam are getting louder. Where is the Iraq Lt. Calley? I’m reading a thing on Stratfor about withdrawals, and I heard another thing on kboo with Jeremy Scahill about how there’s no way we’re getting out of Iraq-with a HUGE embassy, people needing to be protected, and Blackwater. Plus the oil. It ain’t happenin’-no matter what comes out of the mouths of politicians. Like a former boss said about writing software-“when you give a date, you tell a lie.” Plus the regional players want us there. The problem is that they’re drained, we need to redeploy to Afghanistan, and it’s an election year. Blecch.
And a sermon about UUism-we’re nearing the time to reformulate our Principles. The crux of the sermon is about 2/3rds the way down. This is important stuff-one of the problems with religion and spirituality in general is the way beliefs and operating principles get accreted over time, ossify and turn into dogma. UUism has tried to get beyond that by making them optional from a creedal standpoint, and by periodically refreshing them as well. This one is great-wordy, but great. Wordy can be fixed. Great can’t.
Listening-Yessongs