As this crop circle season winds down, once again we ask, who is making them and why and what do they mean? Like rorschach blots, they sometimes seem to reflect the eye of the beholder. Some seem crude, most likely human-made, others not. Most designs look like they could be computer-generated. Human-made does not necessarily […]
Read MoreIf you wonder about the meaning of the word “resilient,” now that the word “sustainable,” and decades before that the word “natural” (I know, I was there; back in the late ’60s using the then unusual word “natural” as a philosophy graduate student to contrast it with the mechanistic scientific world-view), have both been been […]
Read MoreTop U.N. Human Rights Chief: “There are many parts of the U.S. where apartheid’s flourishing” August 21, 2014 by bobswern dailykos The general topic of human rights is discussed at Daily Kos (virtually) seven days a week. But, with escalating bloodshed in Gaza, other ongoing events throughout the Mideast, Boko Haram savaging northeastern Nigeria, children […]
Read MoreWhere did we go wrong? Our intern Jeffrey spent two hours digging up the six foot by three foot plot; here it is denuded — Of course, in our uncritical arrogance, we were anticipating a gigantic potato harvest (after all, every thing else has been gigantic and bountiful this year), and instead, what? This? These […]
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