Category: Social/Environmental
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SODIS
The April National Geographic is devoted discussions about water. Water will be a defining issue of this century. Even though over 90 percent of the world’s surface is covered with water, only 3 percent of water is fresh, and many people don’t have enough to drink.The most interesting article was about a simple way to…
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Is Sex Interesting?
From an essay, “Writing About Sex,†by Wallace Shawn from Harpers, August 2009.Sex is of course an extraordinary meeting place of reality and dream, and it’s also—what is not perhaps exactly the same thing—an extraordinary meeting place of the meaningful and the meaningless. The big toe, for example, is one part of the human body,…
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We’re the best…
…in the world at being second and third — if the just completed Winter Olympics are any indication of our ability to compete.Makes you wonder what we could do if we had universal health care and took care of all our citizens, like they do in the rest of the first world. I wonder what…
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Do your part to reduce the deficit
Eliminating smoking may boost Medicate costs $293 billion, because people would live longer and make more claims.Pg. 72, Time Magazine, 22 February, 2010Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em!
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Planet Earth 2010
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an…
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BAD 2009
Today is Blog Action Day, and the topic this year is Climate Change.Of course I couldn’t think of anything to write, but I have noticed that there are a lot more dead trees around the City of Saint Paul in the last year; and that normally in September we get a substantial amount of rain…