Winter in Vermont is all about celebrating our "Snow Commons. "

And these two lads show us how to rip it up, not just on the homestead sledding hill, but in their creative use of digital video production technology.

This project was entirely produced by 2 third graders. Enjoy.

Snow. Go. Mojo!

Director Davis “Inconvenient Truth” Guggenheim’s new “documentary” film “Waiting For Superman” is easily one of the most infuriating films I have seen in some time.  To be clear, I use the term “documentary” loosely; “docu’ganda” is a more apt descriptor. 

The film tells the heart-breaking story of five likeable children –...

Some favours come at too high a price.

You have a right to know the price of Lockheed bailing out the Montpelier government budget. A few more years of a balanced budget, with recovery always 'just around the corner'. The price:

•   - Participation in the ongoing genocide
•   - Vermont responsible for sharp increase in Global Warming
•   - Lockheed's money comes from borrowed cash that WE have to pay back through higher taxes and lower living standards.  Nothing's for free!
•   - Vermont becomes a 'Company Town' for the Lockheed corporation
•   - Even our schools have to open to...

What a blast!

Vermonters know how to party.

Special thanks to directors Chris and Teo, and the entire GREEN-BLOODED Barnard crew for traveling north to spend the evening with us. Check out and support their emerging fim here.

Editor's Note: Left-leaning Vermont bloggers have been strangely (?) quiet on responding to the POTUS's SOTU message the other night. Perhaps it is because Vermont's liberals are waking up to the reality that Team Obama has not ushered in the sort of "hope and change" that 70% of Vermont's voters thought they were endorsing back in fall of 2008. The U.S. of Empire stumbles blindly on, with Mr. Obama attempting to verbally "Pangloss" over the reality of our situation. Perhaps new Vermont Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin will save us here in the once and future republic. In the meantime, here's Lendman on Mr. O's latest rhetorical posturing.

Like last year, Obama's address was empty rhetoric, signaling business as...

Think.

Should farmers & consumers in Vermont have as many rights as those in Europe, Australia and New Zealand? The European Union (EU) countries implemented mandatory labeling requirements for genetically engineered soy and corn. By the end of 1998, nearly all the grocery chains and fast food restaurants in the EU had eliminated genetically engineered ingredients from their products. Australian and New Zealand food manufacturers must label all processed food products that contain GMO (genetically engineered, or biotech) ingredients. As a result of this labeling requirement, Australia's largest food conglomerate, Goodman Fielder, eliminated GMO from its product line. Other manufacturers and grocery chains are following...

Editor's Note: Just for fun. God knows, we need it.

BARACK OBAMA:  The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change!  The chicken wanted change!
      
JOHN MC CAIN:  My friends that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
      
HILLARY CLINTON:  When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
      
GEORGE W. BUSH:  We don't really care why...

Editor's note: When the leaders of the 2 most powerful economic powers in the world - China and the United States - sit down to chat about "human rights," he story is usually framed as "U.S. - good, China - bad." Astute observers recognize that things are just a wee bit more complicated. Here's an offbeat AVATAR VIDEO to get you started, one that takes a position very different than Lendman, and then Lendman's own observations.