Posted by: duckandgather on: October 6, 2011
I just finished up a weekly play-date between my daughter and my neighbor’s daughter. My neighbor, Mike, and I do an hour of Yoga during the play-date, and follow that with an hour of conversation. Over the years, our conversations have covered just about every topic. Tonight’s topic was Occupy Wall Street. I asked him [...]
Posted by: duckandgather on: October 5, 2011
A couple of months ago I was worrying that Obama getting assissinated by Corporate stooges might be the only way that America would be saved. Made me very sad to think so, given how moved my wife and I were when he took office. But one reads history, and sometimes national tragedies like that are [...]
Posted by: duckandgather on: October 1, 2011
There’s something happening here; What it is ain’t exatly clear; There’s a man with a gun over there; Telling me I got to beware Although those lyrics were written in 1966, they almost perfectly describe the first two weeks of Occupy Wall Street. I’m 48 years old. I was 4 years old, growing up in [...]
Posted by: duckandgather on: October 1, 2011
I started this blog in 2003. Short story is that I read two books (one of which was the Fourth Turning), and an idea popped into my head that America was going to collapse, and that the collapse would take the form of a civil war characterized as People vs. Corporations. From that realization, I [...]
Posted by: duckandgather on: October 1, 2011
I’m going to be blogging a bunch about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and its many growing offshoots in other cities. I’ll call it “Occupy Us” until a better name comes along. I have many, many thoughts about this movement. But before I get to my thoughts, I thought I would start with explaining my [...]
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