tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post6650379447066175061..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Happy Fourth of July...and God Bless America!Gail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-82225514851480091582012-07-05T18:37:01.063-04:002012-07-05T18:37:01.063-04:00You're pretty smart, for a farmer, Brian!You're pretty smart, for a farmer, Brian!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-45984423343877312122012-07-05T17:01:16.066-04:002012-07-05T17:01:16.066-04:00"God Bless America" is a brilliant artis..."God Bless America" is a brilliant artistic recognition of cultural decay.<br /><br /><i>But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot.</i> ~Robert Heinlein, in his novel <a href="http://www.bobgod.com/sickculture.html" rel="nofollow">Friday</a><br /><br />My best advice is to <a href="http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2008/07_25_2008/story1.htm" rel="nofollow">"control space"</a> while America <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink" rel="nofollow">"crowds into a behavior sink"</a> by being rural and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism" rel="nofollow">cynical</a> in the classical Greek meaning of the word; i.e., voluntary simplicity.<br /><br /><i>When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.</i> ~Thomas JeffersonBrian Bowmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-63298931433421392122012-07-04T18:59:02.686-04:002012-07-04T18:59:02.686-04:00Climate change causes leaves to narrow.
http://ww...Climate change causes leaves to narrow.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18674808#Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-71540180456587010722012-07-04T10:52:08.512-04:002012-07-04T10:52:08.512-04:00even if people "wake up", there is nothi...even if people "wake up", there is nothing (really) to be done at this stage and i was raised to think that the best way to die is in your sleep. But i am reassured, the majority will go without waking up because it takes so much time and dedication to understand (part of) the whole picture, and time is running out very very fast. We will starve. We can recover from catastrophes if we have enough time between them, which is not the case any more.<br />If I could not talk to you from time to time, I think I would go completely crazy.michele/montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-63338655789619048422012-07-04T09:50:17.765-04:002012-07-04T09:50:17.765-04:00Back to trees first thing tomorrow Michele - thank...Back to trees first thing tomorrow Michele - thanks for the link!<br /><br />Some commenters actually brought up ozone at CP, this is just about unprecedented...maybe so many trees coming down will make people wake up!<br /><br />starting at #4<br /><br />http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/03/510481/media-connecting-the-dots-on-us-storms-heat-and-wildfires-this-is-what-global-warming-looks-like/Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-7284397057949632562012-07-04T09:40:19.685-04:002012-07-04T09:40:19.685-04:00back to trees:
"This was not a storm where t...back to trees:<br /><br />"This was not a storm where tree limbs just fell on our wires," Anderson says. "This was a storm where large mature trees were uprooted and lifted and just thrown into our poles — snapping our poles in half and wrapping our high-voltage wires around homes, businesses and cars." http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/56007848?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p<br /><br />And nobody is asking themselves WHY? They are sure that the wind did it and that's all.michele/montrealnoreply@blogger.com