The Fetish of Individualism Strikes Again

Woodchip takes issue with Wedge Issues in the Occupy Movement. [ HERE ]

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Blundering Goons Strike Again

Chipster takes account of the culture of brutality that passes for constabulary performance in the United States. [READ ]

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Nothing But a Revolution can save Us, Part III -- The Theology of 99 Percent

In the third and final woodchip on the Occupy Movement, chipsters focus on the medieval theology that animates the protests. [ READ ]

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Nothing but a Revolution can save Us, Part II ... Applying Plaster to Rot

In Part II, of Woodchip's analysis of the OWS movement, the historical cycles of generation and decay are examined. [ READ ]

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Our Daily Belt

Chipsters add their two-chips worth on the judicial belting of a miscreating daughter. [READ ]

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Flash-Banging the Right to Peaceably Assemble

The Gazette summarizes the events in Oakland leading up to the firing at unarmed, peaceable protestors. [ READ ]

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Piecing Together the Confusion

Chipsters ponder the piecing together of chips of a fresco and what it all might and did mean [ READ ]

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Half a Percent for Ninety Nine Percent

A Woodchip Analysis of President Obama's latest electoral moves by executive order. [READ]

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Confluence and Coincidence -- the Calculus of 99 Percent

Chipster ponders War and Peace and soothsay the movement(s) of the 99 percent. [ READ ]

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Peeking into the GOP Cave

Chipster pokes his nose into a debate. [READ]

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The Silence of the Shams

Chipsters poke around to see what, if anything, Democratic senators have to say about the Occupy Wall Street protests. [READ]

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Does Research Make You Stupid?

While munching acorns, chipsters sound off against another "health study". [ READ ]
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Bank of America versus America the Beautiful

Chipsters discuss Bankster Avarice and the need to bring back the concept of Sin into public discourse. [ READ ]

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We Have Met the Enemy and We is Stuck

Chipsters reluctantly reflect on an event. [ READ ]

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Obama's Trojan Horse

Woodchip Gazette distills the poison in Obama's new Jobs Pill. [ READ ]

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Flighting for Freedom

On the capture of a cow [ READ ]

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Transparency

Woodchip Gazette takes note of the War for Chaos and Control of Libya's Assets. [READ]

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Transparency

A Woodchip Analysis of what's -- transparently -- at issue in Libya. [ READ ]

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Bring Back The Bull Moose!

Woodchip discovers a long lost speech that points to our unfinished future. [ READ ]

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Fauxbama Strikes Again

Woodchip cuts through the legerdemain to reveal the trickery and unfairness of Obama's shared budget sacrifices. [ READ ]

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Mining, Harvesting and Civic Carcinogens

Woodchip Gazette discusses how U.S. national security policies undermine civil society at home and abroad. [ READ ]

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The Indignation in Spain...

Woodchip discusses the protests and elections in Spain, as well as the lines being drawn around the world in the global economy. [ READ ]

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The Queen's Speech

Chipsters ponder the Queen's visit to Ireland and the work of her speech. [READ]

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Cinco de Mayo -- A Poor Excuse for a Party

Woodchip Gazette takes note of the historical misconceptions surrounding Mexico's alleged liberation from the French. [ READ ]

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A True National Security Moment

Chipsters discuss the real significance of Bin Laden's "boating accident at sea" [ READ ]

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A Republic, You Say?

Chipsters discuss the advantages of monarchy versus monarchy. [ READ ]

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Knock, Knock -- It's the I.M.F. ...

Chipsters explain the I.M.F's concepts of inputs and outputs. [ READ ]

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Confining Manning & Falling into the Outer Darkness

Once again, Woodchippers examine the implications of solitary confinement on our constitutional universe and how the depersonalizing of one dehumanizes all. [ READ ]

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Folly on the Nile & The Calculus of History

Woodchip examines what Tolstoy and Machiavelli would have a said about the "unrest" spreading throughout the Arab world. [READ]

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Earth & Sky -- An Historical Obituary for Bishop Ruiz of Chiapas

On the death of Samuel Ruiz, bishop of Chiapas, Woodchip uses the occasion to examine the history of Church activism in Hispanic America, to reflect on the antecedents of Liberation Theology and to think about the questions the Zapatista peasant movement would have us ask. [READ]

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The Bezerkeley Gypsy and The Hysteria of Impotence

Woodchips ponders the impotence of the Left. [READ]

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The Wrong Type of Climate Control -- The Risks of Free Speech

Once again, Woodchip Gazette warns against trying to make speech "safe" and recalls James Madison to remind us that freedom always entails risks... [READ]

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