The spineless wing (Democratic Party) of the Corpocracy that currently controls both houses of our Congress is very likely to lose control of one or both chambers of the legislature to the rabid mix of fundamentalist Christionistas and Teabagger libertarians . . . → Read More: Unholy Ugly Truth]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1839 Here’s a report from KFSN about a terrorist attack that happened in the town of Madera, California last week.  I haven’t been watching the news too closely this weekend, but I suspect this is the first you’re hearing about it too. Last Thursday, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a local medical clinic.

“Upon . . . → Read More: All Terrorists Are Not Muslims]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1814 This week, The Witch of Hebron, sequel to James Howard Kunstler’s post petroleum novel, World Made By Hand, began shipping to booksellers worldwide. I wrote the following brief review in January of 2009.

To this day, World Made By Hand remains one of my favorite pieces of fiction and with this week’s release of the sequel, . . . → Read More: Book Review: World Made By Hand]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1567 I’m one of those nut jobs that believes there are limits to our natural resources, at least some of them. Solar energy is virtually infinite, but that’s an exception I can live with. I also believe in the fairy tale that is the greenhouse effect and the impact of human industrial activity on the global climate.

Call . . . → Read More: Gardening Without Gas]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1796 I’ve decided to add a new feature to the site, in part to keep folks coming back to take another peek at what’s got going on around here, but mostly because I keep finding really great blogs and I want you to know about them to.

Located to the left of your screen you will find the . . . → Read More: Featured Blog Of The Week]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1791 A few weeks ago my mother received the hateful little piece propaganda you’ll find at bottom of this post, in her email. I have reproduced it here verbatim, only reformatting the fonts for the sake of  visual clarity, but first I have a few words for the hateful, ignorant morons in the world who keep spreading . . . → Read More: So Much Bullshit, So Little Time]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1774 Who or what is a sociopath?

Author and psychologist Martha Stout knows and in her book, The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Vs. The Rest Of Us, she explains that a sociopath is an individual devoid of conscience; a person completely lacking the ability to love or otherwise emotionally connect with other living beings.

Some sociopaths become world . . . → Read More: Book Review – The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Vs. The Rest Of Us]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1647 Sometimes I get a bit discouraged by the dominant American attitude, especially in the business world, that we can’t take what we know to be the right action or make the right decision because to do so would be unprofitable.

I spent a good portion of this week at work making and carrying out decisions that ran . . . → Read More: Doing The Right Thing]]> http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=1751