The corporate news centers are now focused on manufacturing consent for war. You are not hearing any opposing views on TV or in the newspapers. But there are opposing voices. And, unlike during the Gulf War, there are other ways for those voices to be heard. The Internet has given the ability to end run the corporate voice to the individual citizen. E-mail is a way for people to communicate directly. Web logs are a way to collect and disseminate the alternative voices.

My dad used to say, much to my mother's dismay, "'Every little bit helps', said the old lady who peed into the sea." This web log is my way of peeing into the sea of corporate insanity. Citizenship in this country requires more than going to the polling booth every four years and more than sitting in front of a big screen TV, drinking Bud Light, and yelling "Nuke the rag heads!" (I know people who actually did that, I'm ashamed to say.) It requires action. This is one way for me to act.

The picture on top of this page has a picture of me flashing a peace sign. It was done light heartedly, at the time. I even thought recently of updating that picture. I'm glad it's still there. Peace is now very serious business. Our survival depends on it.

I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the assassination of JFK, the terrible year of 1968 with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and the whole madness of Vietnam. What is happening now is getting much scarier. And, with what is happening now, I have never been more convinced that pacifism is the only way out. Pacifism doesn't mean doing nothing. Martin Luther King and Gandhi were pacifists and look at how they changed the world. We are not Kings or Gandhis but, as my dad would say, "Every little bit helps."

On the left column is a list of web logs that are also offering other voices. Please read them too.

As a great 20th century philosopher once said:

Give peace a chance. - John Lennon