7/15/07

We traveled from the debate in D.C. to the Green Party National Convention in Reading, Pennsylvania.   The three days at the Convention were a whirlwind for us.   I had declared to vy for the Green Party nomination among … Continue reading

6/11/07

Average JoeOhio Tour cont.:   While in Bluffton, we stayed on Dan and Cindy Basinger’s farm.   Dan told me he’d recently read a story about a rock singer who converted to Christianity.   He was sitting in a pew … Continue reading

12/2/04

I gave a talk on Finding Common Ground in Politics at the Oberlin, Ohio, “Peace Potluck” tonight.   During the Q & A period, people from the audience talked about their protests at the School of the Americas, their work … Continue reading

6/20/06

I continue to update our position paper on the environment. Yesterday I was writing about “water power.” At a stop in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, during Campaign 2004, we learned there is a project underway there to harness wave action … Continue reading

6/19/06

The following is an excerpt from the beginning of a column I’m currently working on: Okay, let’s talk “weapons of mass destruction.” They seem to be causing the darndest problems these days. We thought Iraq had them. And boy, look … Continue reading

6/13/06

I have just started to update our position paper on the environment, based on some 15 years of research… A hot (excuse the pun) topic these days is: global warming. It is, indeed, an Inconvenient Truth. And since the Bush … Continue reading

4/24/06

We drove into Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where we met with Robert Waldrop, a quintessential ‘extra-mile American,’ if there ever was one. Some seven years ago he started the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House out of his modest, one-story home on … Continue reading

3/29/06

I picked up a Time Magazine in Seaside, California, yesterday. There was a “Special Report” on global warming. It was titled: BE WORRIED. BE VERY WORRIED. And after I read the articles, I was. (That is, even more than I … Continue reading