The first thing to do when faced with a situation racing wildly out of control, such as a massive wildfire roaring down a canyon road toward you, is to evacuate. You can drop everything that isn’t alive and regroup later.
My son Eric is the youth pastor of Malibu Presbyterian, the church that was one of [...]

Life is either light or dark. The other night, my therapy-dog-in-training Conor and I walked the main boulevard near my Portland house and got to see what street people see: social injustice. You’re either in or you’re out. At least eight people along the 10-block stretch sat on the cold sidewalk outside busy, well-lit, Friday-night-crowd restaurants. The sidewalk [...]

A message from the freepress campaign, working to keep the series of tubes a place where anyone can communicate. Once again, all categories checked, because keeping the Internet open is important to every issue:
Last week, a quarter-million people came out in force to tell the Federal Communications Commission to open the public airwaves [...]

Dear George,
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Phone and cable company lobbyists are attacking Internet freedom again in Washington. But people from every corner of the country are rising up to stop them. You can help by taking five minutes to save the Internet.
The FCC needs to hear your story about why an open [...]

(This affects you no matter what substantive issues you are most interested in. Driving out small publishers will do to our discourse what Sprawl-Mart does to Main Street businesses in Oregon.)
POST OFFICE TO END 215 YEARS OF SUPPORT OF A FREE PRESS
BOB MCCHESNEY - The U.S. Post Office is in the process of [...]

Help voters to know that neo-cons like Saxton represent the 1-2% of the most wealthy among us and the mega-corporations, NOT the vast majority of citizens.

I am positively turning into a States’ rights believer! After all, when the Federal government is controlled by the far right across the board, well, the only sanctum is our dear little (mostly) blue State.