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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Exploratory drilling — it’s come to that

Monday, June 8, 2015

Today a big truck belonging to Patterson Exploration Services rolled into the little town of Walnut Cove, five days earlier than expected. The truck is a drilling rig that will drill a core-sample hole 1,750 deep to look for the presence of frackable gas. This is at taxpayer expense. The core sample was mandated by […]

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I sense something historic here

Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Rev. Dr. William Barber II at Rising Star Baptist Church in Walnut Cove North Carolina government has been taken over by right-wing politicians who have been hastily enacting the billionaire agenda — lower taxes for the rich, higher taxes for working people, the worst voter suppression laws in the nation, the privatization of education […]

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Just because it’s June …

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

There will be blackberries. I’ve sown a lot of red clover seed, but I learned that it’s just too big a plant to grow in the yard. Only white clover, it seems, happily co-exists with grass. But the red clover loves unmowed ditches and banks. There will be day lilies — lots of them. The […]

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Review: Inequality: What Can Be Done?

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Here are two must-read books for those who care about the human condition in an era in which we are immersed in a dumber-than-rocks political and media culture. I read Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century last year shortly after it came out. That book has received an enormous amount of attention among […]

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