If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

There is so much possibility for economies not reliant on cops with guns and jails, economies we can program and co-govern with our dreams. I saw a bit of that this weekend. But in too many ways, folks are accepting some hyper-capitalist sleepwalk as good enough.

Where the heck is the Tea Party movement when you need it?