Sicko, An Inconvenient Truth, Fahrenheit 911, Citizen Kane, Contact, The Straight Story, My Life as a House, Music of the Heart, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Last Waltz, Woodstock, Seabiscuit, The Cider House Rules, Cinderella Man, An Unfinished Life, Star Trek movies.
Television
Television mostly sucks the grey matter right out of our brains. I like Link TV, Democracy Now, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Cold Case, Lost, Whose Line is it, and some old shows like M*A*S*H. I hate most game shows and the stupid-ass reality shows that the networks cram down our throats. As for news...well, don't get me started on media consolidation.
Books
Moby Dick, Walden, The Grapes of Wrath, Cosmos, Demon-Haunted World, To Kill a Mockingbird, Invisible Man, 1984, American Dreams Lost and Found, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Fast Food Nation, A People's History of the United States, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Eugene V. Debs Speaks.
“If impeachment is off the table, truth is off the table. If truth is off the table, then this [Congress] is living a lie” -- Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
"The real political spectrum is not left to right. It's top to bottom" -- Jim Hightower
"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it." -- Sitting Bull
“Americans are bred -- like stuffed geese -- to be consumers, not human beings” -- Lame Deer
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” --
Thomas Jefferson
“Some people think that if you are free to say what you like, you are living in a democracy. But freedom of speech is not the sum total of democracy, only one of its necessary conditions. A government is not a democracy when it leaves us free to say what we want but leaves others free to do what they want with our country, our resources, our taxes and our lives” -- Michael Parenti
"There are mothers and fathers who want to see their children live in a decent world and who, if spoken to, if inspired, if organized, could raise a cry that would be heard on the moon" -- Howard Zinn
"If the nation's responsible authorities are unable to administer the most powerful educational force in society -- TV -- who has this mandate?" -- Herbert I. Schiller
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
-- Carl Sagan
"Human beings, using their own intelligence and cooperating liberally with one another, can build an enduring citadel of peace and beauty upon this earth"
-- Corliss Lamont
“Human rights are often spoken of, but we must also speak of humanity's rights. Why should some people walk around barefoot so that others may travel in expensive cars? Why should some live only 35 years so that others may live 70? Why should some be miserably poor so that others may be exaggeratedly rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not even have a piece of bread. I speak on behalf of the sick who lack medicine. I speak on behalf of those who have been denied the right to life and human dignity. Some countries are on the sea; others are not. Some have energy resources; others do not. Some possess abundant land on which to produce food; others do not. Some are so glutted with machinery and factories that even the air cannot be breathed because of the poisoned atmosphere; while others have nothing more than their emaciated arms with which to earn their daily bread. In short, some countries possess abundant resources; others have nothing. What is their fate? To starve? To be eternally poor? Why then civilization? Why then the conscience of man? Why then the United Nations? Why then the world?” -- Fidel Castro Ruz
Antiwar activists, progressives, humanists, socialists, environmentalists, musicians, artists, students, soldiers, unionists, agitators, outcasts, and any other free thinkers who dream of a world without borders yet are not afraid to laugh at life's absurdities.
“Sicko” Rally -- Michael Moore (11:51)
British MP George Galloway vs. US Senate on Iraq war (3:55)
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Hey! I'm glad you stopped in. We had a ball! It was a great evening for music in Chillicothe. Keep April 25th open. Jimmy Fleming and I will be playing there at Mona lisa's with Scott and Speak. peace~Roger
Thanks for the add. ¶ What is human nature? We must not only describe what we see, but choose what we become, choose between love & fear. Voting & shopping are not enough: we are still writing our destiny, and every one of us may be needed; no one can afford to be just a spectator. People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they'll need inspiration too. An echo of an echo of Buddha or Jesus, encrusted in ritual, loses context & content, but we write what we can. Try to hear the deeper questions. ¶ This world's diverse evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, & murderers — in market, government, & elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by greed. They want us to share that belief, for they use it to justify themselves, to keep us apart & control us, perpetuating loneliness, poverty, war, ecocide. Their power comes not so much from conspiracies as from their framing of every day's news, the assumptions we never notice. ¶ But they're mistaken about our motives. You & I have found empathy inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, if only we can wake them, for we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. The bureaucracy of brutality will fall without a shot if we open the eyes of its workers. ¶ If you haven't already, join the global conversation, in whatever way feels right for you. Merge the revolutions of enlightenment & class struggle. Worldwide understanding has no precedent; we must discover & erase its rules en route. Make love not war is as serious as Orwell & as light as "Chocolat." For a start, just talk with people — that may not sound like much, but really it's huge. Spread the word. Each of us knows only part of the song, but keep singing, hoping, resisting, questioning. Hand in hand, we may heal this world. ¶ Eric
(PS Even though Bush will leave the Oval office, I still think Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice should be impeached for Grand Deceit and Illegal warfare...
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" —George Orwell
Unimaginable human suffering and mass animal extinction from global warming. A peak oil crisis threatening economic collapse. A national security nightmare brought on by our dependence on foreign oil.
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