"The truth is that this culture is insane. When Derrick asks his audiences, “Does anyone here believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” - and he’s asked it for years, all around the country-no one says yes. That means that most people, or at least most people with a beating heart, ( Read more... )

"I'm quite certain that Catastrophic Climate Change will result in the extinction of Baseline Humans [Homo Sapiens Sapiens] aka me and thee over the next century or so, no matter what we do at this point. The Earth's surface is going to become largely uninhabitable for maybe a thousand years, give or take a century ( Read more... )

"There is so much to say regarding the outrage quotient vis-a-vis #CecilTheLion vs #SandraBland, but I am too tired and too cynical to deal."

…and I started to cry after I posted that.

"It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~Jiddu Krishnamurti ( Read more... )

In the thirteen years since Columbine, roughly two hundred and ten people have been killed in mass shootings.

Last night roughly 200,000 homeless American children spent that night either outside in the cold or, if they were lucky, in a shelter.

Which issue do you think is more urgent?

The correct answer of course is 'mass shootings' because ( Read more... )

"Either one supports Free Speech or one does not. I despise Terry Jones and all he stands for and I fully support his right to say the hateful things he says even though I know he would not extend the same to me. Silencing him would be to surrender to those who are equally as hateful." ..comment @ EGYPT: Riots At US Embassy After American Christian ( Read more... )