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We live in interesting times. Contrary to the Chinese saying that uses this as a curse, today it is more like a blessing. The current financial and political upheavals mark the beginning of significant changes happening in our world. Things, as they say, will never be the same. Much as the TV pundits and political talking heads would like to assure us that everything will eventually return to

Something is happening in rural America.

 This morning I was having breakfast in the local coffee shop in La Junta, Colorado, musing to myself about last night's presidential debate. On the next table two older men were discussing the same subject and I couldn't resist eavesdropping.  Here are a few snippets:

 One was commenting on McCain's awkward put down of the young

The fact that the government website posting the full text of the financial bail-out plan crashed last week because so many people were trying to access it is an encouraging sign for the future of our democracy. For many years now, the information flow in our society has been increasingly manipulated to meet the requirements of special interests in government and/or corporations. The “message”,

This past week’s financial troubles illustrate an obsession with the value of size and the inherent dangers of uncontrolled growth that have been plaguing our financial, commercial (and social) life for far too long. Quite apart from the old sexual innuendo about the value of “large” (or maybe because of it), we have become slaves to “big” in every aspect of our lives. Freed from sensible

One problem with modern culture is that everything becomes so quickly commercialized and faddish that good intentions often get lost or subverted in the process. The Green Revolution is a good example; the term “green” being so overplayed that it is in danger of ending up in the verbal dustbin along with other such exhausted adjectives as “natural” and “organic.”

It’s easy to forget the