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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The Return of the Oubliette - Sado Justice in America

The use of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation and its effect on both humans and on the rule of constitutional law is examined. [ READ ]

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Bolivia's Bill of Rights for Mother Earth

Woodchip discusses Bolivia's new law granting rights to Mother Earth and its radical "un-inversion" of the individualistic, utilitarian paradigm of modern Liberalism. [READ]

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Wiki Witch Hunt Reveals True Face of Government

Woodchips discusses what the witch hunt against WikiLeaks reveals about the Government's plan to reinstate sedition laws by criminalizing the possession of information that puts alleged governmental interests "at risk". [ READ ]

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NIPP & CIKR - Whom the Gods would Destroy

Woodchip Gazette examines the latest, and only significant, Wikileak which indicates the psychotic derrangement of a United States Government which literally knows no bounds and lays claim to the world. [ read ]

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Black Friday and Purple Sunday

Chipsters ponder two incompatible approaches toward the Season. [ read ]

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Woodchips' People Friendly Balance Budget

Chipsters solve the Balanced Budget "problem" without touching a hair off the head of Social Security or Medicare. Chew cud Simpson! [ here ]

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In Remembrance of Armistice Day

Woodchips ponders the meaning and corruption of Armistice Day. [ read ]

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