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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

Watching the Obama and McCain event at the Saddleback Church on television Saturday night, I was reminded how much male testosterone infuses the political landscape these days. CNN chief political correspondent John King several times referred to the pre-game coverage (it was held in a church for Christ’s sake, John, not the Giant’s stadium) and old John McCain couldn’t open his mouth without

I have to take a break from my normal musings on politics, the environment, etc. to talk about SPAM. I’m old enough to remember SPAM 1.0, immortalized by Monty Python in their Viking canteen song and consisting of canned animal parts not dissimilar in nature to the Cream song “Pressed Rat and Warthog”. When I was at high school in England we were served spam deep fried in batter for lunch which

I was sitting in Charlie’s basement the other day discussing one world government. Charlie (not his real name but, trust me, the name works fine) is a rancher out west. Getting on in years, he likes to spend his days holed up in his machine shop chewing tobacco, taking a few sips of Kentucky’s best rye, and pondering the machinations of big government.

Like many independent spirits out west,

I’ve always wondered where the phrase “God-fearing” came from and why it should be so commonly used in this country as term of respect. To me, the last thing we need to be afraid of is the Divine, which, according to almost every spiritual tradition, is the source of universal love, and so ought to be experienced as the most nourishing and compassionate force in our lives.

But then this