My first few days in town, toward the end of April, 1978, I wasn’t in town. Well, not sleeping there at any rate. Rentals were hard to come by (I gather it’s infinitely worse nowadays), so each evening I would…
Cultural confusion? It’s the state I live in. I am a white man living in a red man’s land. Never in a million years as a young man growing up on the southern plains of Kansas could I imagine myself…
Just three days before we published this issue, YouTube removed “Planet of the Humans” from its site. Here is Michael Moore’s response: https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10156931713771857 . The film is available on Vimeo at this link: https://vimeo.com/423114384. UPDATE: the film has been restored to…
Note: Elsewhere in this issue is a review of the recently released documentary, “Planet of the Humans.” The documentary was written and directed by Jeff Gibbs, and produced in part by Michael Moore. In part, it exposes the hypocritical connections…
A New Update from author Kevin Emmerich, May 2020: After 12 years of trying to voice reason over poorly sited renewable energy projects, it is disappointing to report that green energy developers are working with the current administration and a…
When we recently watched “Planet of the Humans,” the new controversial environmental documentary produced by Michael Moore, we felt like we were re-living a number of our articles from the last couple decades. In addition to Jim’s written response, we…
June 23rd, 1941Mr Hugh M Miller, SuperintendentSouthwestern National MonumentsCoolidge, Arizona Dear Hugh: It is hot enough today to fry eggs on the “slickrock”, but there are things to be done so I may as well ignore the heat and get…
Herb Ringer discovered his love for the West in 1939. He had traveled from his home in Ringoes, New Jersey to Reno, Nevada to procure a quick divorce, and spent that winter working in a local market, occupying a cramped…
Someday we may decide we’d like to look back at this historical period, and the past three months particularly, which contained a measure of horror and absurdity that surpasses understanding. Thankfully, Facebook was there to capture it all for posterity……
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