Gaza's and Zimbabwe's New Year Begins
Israel is invading northern Gaza with thousands of ground troops. Zimbabwe stands unmolested by any neighbor but faces another year of injustice, lawlessness, and poverty. Mugabe will pack his...
View ArticleEcological Apocalypse Leads to Extinction
A sobering and quite literally terrifying hour long lecture concerning the human generated Sixth Great Extinction event:Nature Matters: Conservation and the Futures of Lifehttp://www.youtube.com/...
View ArticleIs our economy a sinking ship?
So far people seem to be responding to my lyrical attempts to provide insight on our current events.One writerly obsession that has consumed a great deal of my songs has been the Titanic - that great...
View ArticleCloudy Sunrise & World Without Nukes
The sun rose through a filter of haze and clouds today ...http://www.flickr.com/...
View ArticleBaby Animals @ the Zoo
Lowry Park Zoo is filled with baby animals ...http://www.flickr.com/...
View ArticleObama's War Budget Meets Democratic Resistance
Article: The Continuing War RealityStatement from Lynn Woosley (D-CA):"As currently proposed this funding will do two things: It will prolong our occupation of Iraq through at least the end of 2011,...
View ArticleWingnut, Call me a traitor again and I'll kick your ass!
(Half snark/Half serious) My father was a Vietnam vet and a Navy Helmsman. His father was a decorated WWII vet and a Navy man as well. I have family going back to the Civil War, where...
View ArticleThe Future of Warfare
A soldier stares at the display and with a flick of his wrist, a cross-hair magically snaps to the center of the straight lines that define a squat building surrounded by rugged terrain. The enhanced...
View Articlethe legacy of war
In his farewell address to the nation after spending 8 years as president, in 1961 Eisenhower warns of a growing danger.Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.http://youtu.be/...Video...
View ArticleChasing Dolphins & Hymn of the Pearl
Manatee, ducklings, geese and dolphins ...http://www.flickr.com/...Incidentally, I recommend that humans spend time with dolphins every day. Spend more time observing the dolphins and less time...
View ArticleWe Will March On A Road Of Bones
A late and prolonged series of spring storms drove the felines into prolonged detention here in these cramped mountain confines, and, as might be expected amongst a pack of predators, things did not go...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: California's antitax extremism coming home to roost
Most states in the union are grappling with tightening finances in the current economy. But thanks to the antitax extremism that gripped California, Paul Krugman reports that they are in worse...
View ArticleThe Legacy of War -- and Lessons Unlearned
In his farewell address to the nation after spending 8 years as president, in 1961 Eisenhower warns of a growing danger. Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complexhttp://www.youtube.com/...Why would...
View ArticleBees & Parrots & Peace
Today is a beautiful day ...http://www.flickr.com/...This world is beautiful and filled with life and it changes perpetually. Shouldn't we devote our attention to peace and beauty and Nature rather...
View ArticleSomebody Should Have Told Them
The whole thing is so utterly insane that it just sickens me. Eileen and I have decided that if war does come the best thing will be to just stay alive and thus add to the number of sane people....
View ArticleBaby Gators
Under a dim sun and polluted skies it is quite literally true that Nature remains beautiful:http://www.flickr.com/...I especially enjoyed the baby alligators. They are so cute when they are small.
View ArticleUpper Tampa Bay & Manatees
Nature is always beautiful, especially so today ...http://www.flickr.com/...People always seem to respond positively to manatees. It is easy to understand why, too, since they are wonderful, peaceful...
View ArticleSt. Pete Sunrise & North Beach
Sunrise was glorious and the beach equally so ...http://www.flickr.com/...I'm always astonished by how beautiful and varied the natural world is day to day. Nature is infintely inventive and this...
View ArticleFlipper & Cormorant Flock
I spent quality time with the dolphins today ...http://www.flickr.com/...And was very pleased to encounter two manatees, too. Any manatee sighting in the summertime is good luck. Then I visited a...
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