Political Animals: Commie Rats & Capitalist Pigs

Environmental journalism is not a cheerful field of work. The opposition is severe, well funded, and becoming more brutal each year. After years of indifference, the managers of the corporate sector and their hired scribes (Commentary, Nation Review, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, et al.) have finally awakened to the fact that environmentalism, if taken seriously, is a greater threat to the Perpetual Power & Growth Machine than labor unions and Communism. Labor unions can be broken or bought off, and in our nation they mostly have been, while international Communism, though a competitor for planetary power, does not threaten the basic system: Communists like capitalists believe above all in technology, the ever-expanding economy (nice self-contradiction!), industrialism, militarism, centralized control – the complete domination of nature and human beings. The more intense the rivalry the more alike the two sides become; the difference between the men at the top are merely ideological, like the different colors of opposing football teams. As Orwell pointed out in the conclusion of Animal Farm, when the ruling administrators from the two sides convened for a conference, they all looked – to the animals outside looking in – much the same. Which was which? The animals could not tell."

Edward Abbey
Down The River



"...I suggest that Abbey purchase ten six-packs of Schlitz, enclose himself in his garage inside his pickup truck, start the motor and see if he can drink all of the beer..."

J. R. Skousen
Lake Forest, Illinois
from a "fan" letter to Abbey

Anti-Christ Du Jour

"The body of the Antichrist is the Leopard. Nazism is the Leopard. Hitler will be the style of the Antichrist. Hitler used whatever was popular at the time to keep his movement going forward. Obama will use the same methods. Who else will be accepted by the Islamics, the Europeans, the United States, the Hindus, Russia, China. Rev.12&13 says the beast shall turn to attacking Christians. Satan can only be in one place at a time. U.S. is most known for Christians. The beast is seen coming up out of the ocean. Standing on U.S. shore and looking out, Obama rises from the sea, Hawaii."

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Where Have All They Flowers Gone?

“I read history books just like you do. None of these guys are immune to the laws of history. They’re going to go up or down, and they’re going to take their people with them. None of us really knew what was happening in the economy. It changed so quickly into a true nightmare of horror. In another day and age, heads would roll. That’s what would happen. The rot would be cut out. As far as blaming everything on the last president, think of it this way: The same folks who had held him in such him regard came to despise him. Isn’t it funny that they’re the very same people who once loved him? People are fickle. Their loyalty can turn at the drop of a hat.”

Bob Dylan
Rollingstone 5/14/2009