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The Professor
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"The death of our civilization is no longer a theory or an academic possibility; it is the road we're on." Peter Goldmark, former Rockefeller Foundation president
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REMEMBER

Given what today is, the message is all on the Professor and Housewife side of this blog...

5 days ago

Pleading With Their Tormentors Because "Their" Servants and Protectors Are Neither

Want an indication that the environmental battle is being lost?  The National Resource Defense Council’s best answer (and Robert Redford’s) to strip mining on public land is to ask you the citiz...

21 may 12

50th Anniversary

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s seminal book, Silent Spring.  In re-reading it after all these years, I am shaken, jolted, struck, shocked, and disturbed, all over again....

15 may 12

General Dislike and General Despising

People think I’m easier on the Democrats because I like them.  Uhm, no, I don’t.  I just despise what their opponents do, and that tends to seem to let them off the hook, but only in compar...

07 may 12

Press On It

Anyone miss me? :)The things we accept at face value often fall apart when we press on them even a little.  I thought about this in all the traveling I’ve done lately.  You see these little...

30 apr 12

Spank Daddy

A prime reason the country is in bad shape because you, the citizen, probably know WAY more about:Your favorite sports and sports teamsYour house and homes in generalYour car and cars in generalShopp...

16 apr 12

Absolutely Speaking

“I am done.”“We are through, forever.”“My biological father made his choice to notbe a part of my life.  I don’t care abouthim anymore.”“I’ll never be like that again.”Oh, humans, and their funn...

09 apr 12

Not Failed Yet, But Failing

We are failing as a people.  Because we cling to illusion, to ouremotionally anchored beliefs and false “facts.” Because, in Jack Nicholson’scharacter’s words, we “can’t handle the truth.”And so...

26 mar 12

Correcting the B.S. Machine

The tremendous amount of misinformation about “energy”being infused into the media outlets:  Ioften wonder how much  the transmittersreally believe, how much is just fed to them, how much t...

19 mar 12

The Ancients

The ancient philosophers took a great dealmore opportunities to truly THINK than we usually do.  Consider, in this political season ofhyperbole but without further comment, this quote from Arist...

12 mar 12

Whispering Back To Power

At the rate that has been demonstrated, andthe lack of concern on the part of so many, we may lose most of what wasobtained by the longest and hardest struggles (see your history fellow citizens!).Wh...

27 feb 12

Childish labors and smokescreens and diversions

Consider the deceiving smokescreens of concernabout “child labor,” and how little Johnny and Mary are being prevented fromworking for Granny and Granddad on the farm or the like.  No parent or g...

21 feb 12

Inside Your? Valentine

Refusing to accept somethingdoes not make it untrue.  How many women(and men) find it incomprehensible “how he/she could ‘cheat’ on me.”  This “cheating” (I despise the word for awhole host...

12 feb 12

Envisioning the Non-Spectacle

We have, at state andnational level, complex problems of a complex society.  But with legislators spending between 1/3rdand 2/3rds of their waking hours on fund raising (by necessity), where do ...

07 feb 12

Its A Fraud All Right

7 federal prosecutors werefired during the Bush administration because they raised objections to wastingprecious resources looking for voter fraud when they knew there was next tonone.  The rest...

31 jan 12

Energy For Non-Reality and Little to None For Reality

There was a recent Korean study of people whoplayed computer games more than 30 hours per week.  The subjects reported they couldn’t reducetheir playing even though they wanted to. When the...

23 jan 12

The Boxer Who Never Took a Month Off to Rest, The Woodcutter Who Never Sharpened His Axe

Post World War 2 America inserted itself intoevery manner of international involvement, and that injecting of itself intocenter stage demanded much from a people and a society.  The American peo...

16 jan 12

Where did all the men go?

“I am tired of meeting BOYSwho tell me what they think I need to hear, make and break promises, and aren’tready for something serious.  If you aredealing with unrequited love, childhood anger, o...

02 jan 12

Pathetic Parties

We need only look at thepayroll tax (Social Security) reduction political theater to see howintellectually and ethically bankrupt the two parties are:First, the Democrats:  This reduction, which...

26 dec 11

Raqd Ourselves

Saturday saw the last significant combat troops leave Iraq, bringing to a dithering and anti-climactic end major American ground involvement in Iraq. I won’t bring up how much we resemble the Roman w...

19 dec 11

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