5 Ways to CRUSH CONFORMITY this Holiday Season

Esteemed readers, as of November 1 consumer confidence in these United States has plunged at the greatest rate in over 30 years. It is my contention that in recent economic quarters citizens who were once malleable and obedient have become accomplices in dragging down the...

American Ideals: Paris Hilton and Tiger Woods

Esteemed audience, in these days when brazen attempts at resisting and dismantling our great nation's time-honored class distinctions are all too common, it is consoling to know that there are two bustling, energetic young people of significant stature who stand as stalwart...

Sedition, Complacency, and the Role of Today's Museums

My Esteemed Readers, one recent morning I found myself taking a detour through the Hirshhorn Museum while finding a new route from Constitution Avenue. Once inside, I decided to peruse the galleries in order to make certain these pop culture images are keeping the button-down...

Will Aliens find carbon footprints?

Alien Zlog and his side kick Asbo are back and on the look out for our carbon footprints. They find the ‘higher ups’ frown upon the footprints of the ‘lower downs’, especially when they are ‘holidaying’. Asbo visits the beach to find out more. Zlog and Asbo...

Buy Everything Day

this is not how buy nothing day was supposed to go down."NEW YORK - Shoppers — shrugging off a spate of lead-tainted toy recalls and higher prices for food and gas — jammed stores before dawn Friday to grab discounted TVs, toys and the hard-to-find Nintendo Wii, for the...

Shaping a Sustainable Future

"Shaping a Sustainable Future ACF President Professor Ian Lowe, AO + ACF President Professor Ian Lowe, AO Professor Ian Lowe, Spirituality and Sustainability Forum – 6 June, 2007 I begin by thanking His Holiness the Dalai Lama for being in Australia to share with us his...