Irregular Times: News Unfit to PrintIn a time of the fall, old paths close and new paths open. In these irregular times, we offer the incredulous, the heretical, the treasonous, the out of sight. Our news is unfit to print.Resources for the National Day of Mourning, January 20 2005- (Found July 8, 2008 ) We've heard quite a bit about people in our own communities organizing buses to bring protesters to Washington D.C. to take part in anti-Bush protests on January 20. We've seen quite a bit of hub-bub online around the idea of a National Day of Mourning. The sales of our National Day of Mourning bumper stickers, buttons, and posters and shirts has been quite heavy. So we decided to take a look and find out what we could about counter-inaugural activities going on around the country. We've...http://www.irregulartimes.com/dayofmourningj20.html Resources for Progressives in Nevada- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the minds of many Americans, Nevada is nothing but The Strip, Sin City, an unreal place to go and have a good time without having to worry about the consequences. Well, in real life, the people of Nevada wake up in the morning, get to work, and deal with all the grinding aspects of everyday life that other Americans do. Nevadans do not live in some kind of gigantic Candyland. They live in a state where the harsh realities of life are echoed in a struggle between the dominant conservative...http://www.irregularnews.com/states/nevada.html The Easy Art of Enlightened Detachment- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Before I came to the monastery and attained enlightenment, I was in the habit of asking many questions. I expected that with enough work, I could find answers to all of these questions. I was so arrogant that I expected the world to make sense, and to submit to my demands for understanding. I was, as my master would later tell me, a slave to the dancing monkey of my own mind. Since that time, I have come to realize that logic is nothing more than a trap, a beguiling seducer that keeps us...http://www.irregulartimes.com/howcanyoumonastery.html The Real Republican Party Agenda: Burn and Bury Books- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The next time you hear a Republican rave on about "moral issues", ask a question: What's moral about censorship Don't let that righteous Republican guffaw and humph a denial that the Republican Party stands for censorship. Ask a follow-up question: Why is the Republican Party's leadership refusing to take a stand against the bill to censor books in Alabama Take advantage of your Republican friend's confused silence. Use the opportunity to provide some information about one aspect of.http://www.irregulartimes.com/geraldallenbooks.html Resources for Progressives in New Hampshire- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Alternative news sources, progressive and liberal political organizations, candidacies, bumper stickers and buttons -- all about and for green, mountainous New Hampshire.http://www.irregularnews.com/states/nh.html Resources for Progressives in New Jersey- (Found July 8, 2008 ) What is it about New Jersey in particular that makes it the butt of so many jokes Some say that New Jersey is too far outside the New York City scene, but then what does that say about a state like Wyoming, which is fifty times further away, culturally and geographically Some say that New Jerseyis too polluted, but what state in the Union isn't Some say that New Jersey is nothing but a big highway, or a big shopping mall, or a big suburb, but New Jersey is bigger than all that. Oh, New Jersey..http://www.irregularnews.com/states/newjersey.html The Bush Child-Beating Mandate, Reaffirmed- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In the year 2000, we asked ourselves whether George W. Bush's mandate might be one of violence. Mind you, we had no idea Mr. Bush would take it upon himself to prosecute two wars. No, we had a domestic sort of violence in mind, one by the name of "corporal punishment." Corporal punishment, for those of you who aren't familiar with the term, refers to physical forms of punishment (not to be confused with capital punishment, which refers to forms of punishment which involve a person...http://irregulartimes.com/bushbeatingmandatereaffirmed.html Theocracy Creeps Across America- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In another sign of the broad creeping theocracy that has set in across the United States under the watch of the Republican Party, there has been a dramatic increase in sectarian religious instruction in American public schools. In just one instance of this trend, the principal of Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia used the school's intercom system to preach an angry religious sermon to the entire school during instructional time. The principal, Tommy Craft, read an evangelical...http://www.irregulartimes.com/creepingtheocracy.html Republican Moral Issue 123: Mixing Strawberries and Weapons of Mass Destruction- (Found July 8, 2008 ) It has often been said that the Republicans in charge of the federal government are bent upon dragging America back into the past, to dwell upon long-forgotten battles and repeat old mistakes all over again. This week, the Bush Administration lurches America backwards 17 years, to 1987 - a time when the Cold War was still raging, personal computers were little more than places to organize family recipes, and inefficient industrial technologies were still the standard. Back in 1987, the United..http://www.irregulartimes.com/methylstrawberries.html Action Alert! Demand an Independent Investigation of Torture- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Recently, we have learned of yet more so-called isolated incidents of torture by yet more bad apples in the American security squads. The newest allegations of torture come from FBI agents who visited the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where people designated enemy combatants, many of whom it turns out never committed any crime against the United States, are being held without trial, access to lawyers, or protection by the Geneva Conventions. Among the newest isolated incidents of...http://irregulartimes.com/tortureinvestigation.html |