By Tom on 2/24/2010 8:19 AM

As 2010, two-oh, one-oh, rhymes with Apolo Ohno, gropes its way onward my gut revolts. The feeling is somewhat like one gets from television when some inane clip is repeated like a dripping faucet. But the images and words that have me this morning were not on television and were not inane. Nor were they strictly repetitious, as the details were new. I had thought I could read carefully for ever, but my gut revolts. I know that hundreds upon thousands upon hundreds of people are being killed and worse because of high muckety muck planning. I know that children are being thrust into hell not youth. I know that veterans are being discarded like used cars. I know that we are being lied to as a matter of course. I have needed to read the daily versions of these, these, demonic churnings because I was writing a weekly column and could tell myself I was doing my part in protest. And yes, I read before as well, but that was before the full force of the enormity of evil hit me. I would jokingly refer to the unfolding...

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By Tom on 2/23/2010 8:56 AM

The first characterization of nondollar money is that it’s anything but funny. What it is, is endlessly fascinating. Money, as you know, trumps political theory, morals, religion, economics, and gunpowder. Money controls society the way blood controls the body. And that control resides with the issuer, just like the genie in the bottle said. Alternate currency is a poor name, instead try alternate existence. Also, you may want to think twice about entering into a study of money for if you start you will never finish. Take Tom Greco. He’s not finished yet, and I wish he would finish so he can end his serial bookage. Vashon needs funny money primarily for the blood reason and also against hyperinflation. You see, we are already ill, and the flood of corruption from Wall Street, Pentagon and Congress here in Vashon is still a trickle. Illness symptoms divide into the physical and the mental. The long semis carting off wastewater and short semis carting off unprocessed solid waste are prominent lumps in the ferry...

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By Tom on 2/20/2010 8:36 AM

The first collateral evidence that Greener Times is no more is that I no longer know what day of the week it is. In addition, or rather, more importantly, GT leaves a Nation in disarray. It's difficult to find words to express the dread emotion with which I see on the tube nice people talking about a well-meaning, functioning US government while at the same time that government is sanctioning assorted crimes against humanity. Vermont wants out. California is reaching for a sky hook to get real health care. North Dakota  has its own State bank. But Vashon, sweet Vashon, is in clover.  The Thriftway lot is full, our Gardens are Toured, and our bistros rock. Unify against Patty Murray the war goddess of Easter Island? Unify against Glacier? Unify against the Federal Reserve? Unify against the most regressive tax system in the USA? Hey, smell the lavender, you'll feel better.

By now, given the unmistakable warning signs, we could have had a dual currency and self-paid health care working in synergism. K-2,...

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By Tom on 2/2/2010 1:27 PM

The acceleration of bad news that is now pulling G’s in our National Cockfight Pit make it increasingly difficult to compose a decent message to the menwomen of Vashon. That’s because Vashon persists in thinking it is immune from, or using its language, cannot affect, national chaos. Do I therefore start writing in capitals with color and hold down the exclamation point key? Possibly. So read carefully now lest I do: Vashon society is dysfunctional, and here’s what the tea leaves in my last cup at the Luna have to say about that. We’re dysfunctional because our bond with youth and our bonds with neighbors are broken. A prominent example is K-2 wherein a few elite and a cloistered Community Council never got beyond thinking the problem was how to make money off it. They should have asked how K-2 could be used to prepare Vashon for the coming economic and social challenge. Another example, we adults wring our hands and twist our knickers over this or that misbehavior in the young. Please PLEASE PLEASE uh-oh, please...

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