By Amanda I have a special place in my heart for heretics and oddballs, misfits and malcontents. Always have. I remember the first time I saw the movie Joan of Arc, I thought she was amazing, not necessarily because I thought she was right, but because she thought she was right and at the very […]
Category: Protest
Eating the Food that Your Food Eats
Lately I have been thinking a lot about food. I’m about halfway through Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, in which the author argues that “Nutritionism” has taught us to be rather reductionistic about how we think about the whole eating thing. We think too much about nutrients like fats, carbs, and proteins, with actual food […]
Nostalgia: It Ain’t What It Used To Be
Here’s the thing about me: I am really, really nostalgic, and one of the effects of this has always been that hearing songs from my past has a profound impact on me. I can often be whisked back to my youth in a moment and recall things that I haven’t thought about in years, just […]
The Discontent of Injustice
By Sky Now comes the spring of our discontent, made furious by injustice done at Capricorn’s end. The death of an innocent, lawmen’s hands bloody red, now more than two summers gone. Out of a Court of Orange, twelve of our own, scattered like sheep, blind to defend what they saw. Lawless legionaries, swords […]
Lessons in Humanity from My Hippie Uncle
Words and Art by Amanda I credit my uncle with giving me a conscience regarding social issues. Before becoming Fundamentalists, my parents named him, my father’s brother and the only Democrat, hippie, vegetarian, nature loving, travel the world on foot, humanitarian, please-donate-to-Unicef-as-my-Christmas-present male in the family, as my godfather. I am eternally grateful for this […]
“What, to the Indian, is Your Thanksgiving?”
In a moving speech given by escaped slave Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852 (a portion of which is read by Morgan Freeman below), the question is asked, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Here is part of his answer: [The Fourth of July] is a day that reveals to […]