Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.

If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.

There is no climate crisis without the Haber-Bosch process, no chemical weapons. There is no mass marketing without sociology and behavioral science. Facebook itself is a scientific triumph that ultimately degrades public discourse and trust in scientific authority. 

WNC Renters Help is accepting submissions of landlord stories for a new community accountability database!

It’s been a busy pandemic, that’s for sure. Now accepting zine submissions for publication.

I’m not saying stop paying attention, or don’t vote. This isn’t a call to not participate in the current system. I am saying vote your conscience come November, but treat that vote as your least important political act of the year.

We the gathered, in observance of the Heavenly Ideals of Merit, Logic, and Freedom, do pledge to consider the full Range of options in defense of the autonomous territory of Heaven as defined. Serving as the activated will of Heaven’s populace, I pledge to:

When you look at the word “world” long enough it itself falls apart. The ‘rld’ throws the brain back to the time of cairns and charnal grounds, grievous, primordial eras this word has survived through. It’s an Old English car-crash of ‘wer’ and ‘ald’, together the weralt, the Age of Man, the world.

Table of Contents (or Theory of Change) of an eventual untitled fiction book about organizing and revolutioncraft.

In one version I have failed to achieve in a conventional sense and am trying to cover my mediocre tracks, wasted the good start I’ve been given and now need to rationalize my bad choices by saying conventional success wasn’t my goal in the first place.