“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, October 6, 2008

Make-Believe Maverick

You must, must, must read this essay in this month's Rolling Stone.

Then you must cut and paste the url and send it on.

You'll see what I mean. John McCain will make George Bush II himself look like an honorable, sensible, ordinary guy. Really. I'm not kidding. McCain's life runs the gamut from misogyny to alcohol to rage to...wow, just read it. From downing his plane on an aircraft carrier and watching on the monitor while 139 people died in the flames, to calling his second wife the c-word.

Even Bush a) respects his wife, b) admitted he had a drink problem, c) oh good heavens I can't believe I'm writing this.

Oh yeah, then there's the Keating Five corruption thing.

Relevant to ecology? Why yes. The entire planet may go up in flames between 2008 and 2012.

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