Brian’s Column: “…destructive of these ends…”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Brian Wright

What’s the threshold for ‘Independence Redo?’
by Brian Wright

In the Declaration of Independence of 1776, Jefferson wrote:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government… Continue reading →

Movie Review: Forks over Knives (2011)

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Brian Wright

Now, THIS is a revolution ___ 9/10

Directed by Lee Fulkerson
Written by Lee Fulkerson

You are what you eat. That’s the important lesson of this game-changing film, a documentary that doubles as a quiet heroic story of struggle and victory. Victory of the truth over decades, even centuries, of lies and misconceptions about the food we consume. In a nutshell the argument of Forks over Knives—the title is intended to suggest the conquest of the ‘knives’ of surgery by the ‘forks’ of eating the right foods—is that changing from an animal-based diet to a whole-foods, plant-based diet will not only make you dramatically healthier, it will prevent and even cure disease… the big ones: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer—most of the time, and within a matter of weeks. Continue reading →

Movie Review: The Apartment (1960)

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Brian Wright

Laughs and love in the age of Mad Men ___ 9/10
Review by Brian Wright

Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
Directed by Billy Wilder

[first lines]
C.C. Baxter: [narrating] On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783. If you laid all these people end to end, figuring an average height of five feet six and a half inches, they would reach from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. I know facts like this because I work for an insurance company – Consolidated Life of New York. We’re one of the top five companies in the country. Our home office has 31,259 employees, which is more than the entire population of uhh… Natchez, Mississippi. I work on the 19th floor. Ordinary Policy Department, Premium Accounting Division, Section W, desk number 861. Continue reading →

Guest Column: GOTUS Declares War on Americans

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Brian Wright

U.S. citizens now primary target of war on terror
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com, Friday, February 10, 2012

Editor’s Note: This column of Mr. Watson’s, due to its urgency, I am taking the liberty of posting in its entirety as a guest column through the Coffee Coaster. Please visit the infowars site and make it a favorite: it is the best source of useful news about the ‘Controllers’ that afflict humankind at this juncture of history. Knowing the truth about this deep social malignancy is the first step in freeing our minds and establishing a New Paradigm of peace and liberty worldwide. Continue reading →

Book Review: Deer Hunting with Jesus (2007)

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Brian Wright

Guns, votes, debt, and delusion in redneck America
by Joe Bageant
Review by Brian Wright

Not for the faint of heart or addled of brain; a redneck native son returns to his roots after years seeking out the American Dream—and at least finding a means of sustenance that gratifies him. Bageant is not a ‘liberal’ in the sense of, say, a quiche-eating, latte-sipping, urban townhouse-dwelling, suit-and-tie-wearing promoter of indiscriminate government spending for ‘those in need.’ In fact, such are a goodly part of his intended audience. He nonetheless manifests a genuine concern for ‘the other’ and an awareness of the engines of ignorance and vulture capitalism that tend to grind these many others of the redneck persuasion into fine dust. Right here in the good ol’ US of A, yup. Trick is: they’ve been brainwashed into liking it. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Smallville ‘Relic’

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Brian Wright

Magical episode in young-Superman series _ 9/10
Review by Brian Wright

Lana: She knew what it felt like to really be in love.
Clark: It’s too bad it couldn’t last.
Lana: But what if that’s not the point. Maybe you have to be grateful for the time that you have together, stop holding on to what could’ve been.

You have to be kidding. Smallville?! Just a comic book treatment of the comic book hero, Superman, right? Not. I’d heard of the Warner Brothers Smallville series, but paid scant attention. Having grown up in the 1950s as an avid follower of the Superman television series starring George Reeves (also reading several of the Superman comic books[1], which had a life of their own since their origin in 1938), I welcomed the first movie Superman in 1978. I’m still a young man (29) then, and though wary of the overcommercialization of one of my childhood heroes, I feel Christopher Reeve and company gave the first Superman a wonderful presence. Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Free State Liberty Forum 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Brian Wright

Glimpse the future of freedom in Nashua, 2/23-26
by Brian Wright

It’s possible I’ve laid down more words of review, panegyric, and general documentation of the Free State and the Free State Project from which it sprang than any single person.[1] I mean, of course, the Free State of New Hampshire and the Free State Project conceived by Jason Sorens, who spelled out the basics in a Libertarian Enterprise column of July 2001. A lot of water gone under the bridge since then… and so many people moving hither. Continue reading →