Harvesting the Communes

by | Jul 14, 2008 | The Public Humanist

From the Shakers to Transcendentalists and hippies, communes spring up in the fields of Massachusetts history like so many unkempt weeds, and like weeds, they have an extraordinary ability to flourish in the most unexpected ways. While many of these communes might be...

Bessie done dealt it.

by | Jul 14, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal

It’s got to be humiliating anymore to be a cow. You’re mostly harmless, you just eat grass and stand around, then some tool comes along and kills you for hamburgers. But I’ve seen little to equal this bovine humiliation: To combat global warming,...