Misdirected Idealism

The world is (and shall remain) as it is, not as we would wish it to be.

Kirsten Brydum, long time Food Not Bombs volunteer and SF Really Really Free Market organizer, was found dead this past Saturday in New Orleans. According to reports she was shot several times in the head.

Kirsten’s death comes on the heels of another tragedy for the activist community, the rape and murder of Eugene Food Not Bombs volunteer Marcella “Sali” Grace in Oaxaca Mexico.

Read it all here. Sad. Especially sad that these two lives were lost for nothing.

The Point of No Return?

Whites in state 'below the replacement' level

Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/05/MNSG1DQ1BL.DTL#ixzz0q5i8mcyV

Third-World Status is Now Unavoidable -- then we're well and truly fucked.

When I last lived in CA in the mid 90s, we had a neighbor who slaughtered goats in his front-yard (via throat-slitting) and barbecued them on a spit in the middle of his lawn. Is that what we have to look forward to?