Read more about this book at www.chelseagreen.com

With so many self-indulgent and relatively useless blog sites out
there, it is always refreshing to find a new and provocative one.

Such is the case with "Casaubon's Book,"created by writer, teacher and
subsistence farmer Sharon Astyk back in 2004 (around the time we founded
this multimedia newspaper.)

I spent some time reading Sharon's work this morning.

I find myself appreciating her wide range
of wisdom, frank talk, and humility.

I am now RSS'ed up, and I look
forward to reading more.

Anthony Pollina of Middlesex is the Progressive candidate for governor of Vermont.

Vermont Commons: Let’s start with a very broad question. As
you’re considering becoming governor of Vermont, what is your vision
for our future? What direction would you like to see our state take?

The following article discusses a work of fiction, The Shell Game.
The article presents the case made by author Steve Alten, and some
experts on international affairs, that the government of the United
States is planning a false flag attack on American soil. This attack is
to be blamed on Iran, and would be used as an excuse to impose martial
law and to attack Iran in order to take out the last remaining hurdle
to the successful completion of the Project for a New American Century.
The term “false flag” is a both a common term, and a specific term of

Well, at least one. 

 Read this uncharacteristically un-cynical editorial from the Vermont Cynic.

Read the Middlebury Campus Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale and Rob Williams.

Good to see some of Vermont's finest young minds getting serious about secession exploration.

We must be making some headway on the secession question when Henry Luce's heirs start paying attention.

Read TIME's "secession mention" here.

A message from John Cleese

To the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President
of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the
revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties
over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which
she does not fancy).

What follows is an edited interview based on a series of email
conversations between Vermont Commons editor Rob Williams and Heidi
Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, conducted during late
winter, 2008. Both parties agreed on the final transcript.

Ethan Allen lives!

Be sure to catch Jim Hogue's stirring live performance celebrating Vermont's mythical founding father.