In the wake of George Washington’s election as president, everyone and his brother-in-law wanted to join the Freemasons. Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the most prominent Freemasons in the world following the Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. Freemasonry grew exponentially in early 1800s America, and in the process lost its…
A mighty military. Women in the home. Abortion and birth control become crimes. Crosses emblazoned on every public building. Machine gunners on our borders. Welfare recipients sterilized. Being gay made illegal. Creationism taught in schools. Discrimination based on religion is permiited by law. English the official language. Exposing animal abuse is criminal. Environmentalists in jail.…
Have you ever seen a border? They aren’t really there. They are make believe. Imaginary! We humans kill each other over imaginary gods and imaginary lines we draw through forests, fields, lakes and rivers. No other creature on Earth recognizes or respects them. Animals step across them, birds fly over them, fish swim through them.…
Animal activists see Conservatives and Capitalists as enemies of animals. But are unconvinced that Socialists and Socialism are any better. Perfectly understandable when one observes that most Socialists are interested only in economic justice and workers’ rights. Most Socialists would have our present industrial state continue, with worker or government ownership of corporate interests rather…
In arguments before the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case, lawyers listed a “parade of horribles” that would follow a decision favoring Hobby Lobby. Among concerns raised were that other plaintiffs could raise their religious opposition to other medical procedures as grounds to be exempted from requirements that they provide such care to their…
To The Organizers of the 2014 Animal Rights Conference: Will there be anyone speaking at the conference acknowledging that we are losing? That if we continue our present course of action the Animal Holocaust will never end? That the human population is growing faster than the vegan population? That the Animal Rights movement is part…
Many, if not most, people will do anything for money. For profit. It’s why atrocities happen, Holocausts occur, wars are fought. It is why there are union busters, climate deniers, vivisectors, slaughterhouse workers, executioners, lobbyists, Conservative politicians. Why corporations can exploit people and the Environment. Because people can be bought. As long as there are…
As an Atheist, I hold a worldview that I believe to be far more profound than that of any religious person’s. Atheists subscribe to science and believe that we are the products of evolutionary development. Atheist beliefs are science based. Factually proven concepts. Evolutionary biologists have shown that life began on Earth billions of years…
Societal changes are glacially slow. Four hundred years of slavery in America. Five hundred years before women could vote. And the enslavement, exploitation, and murder of animals since the Dawn of Time. Each day One Hundred Fifty Million animals are brutally murdered in slaughterhouses. Six million per hour. One hundred thousand while you read these…
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a poor substitutute for universal single payer healthcare. It is far better than no healthcare, and did address serious issues that required fixing, such as preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, removing caps on payouts, charging the same for men and women, etc. But in the…
Armory of the Revolution 