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Groups: Personal Storytellers, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet
Diaries published: 20 (718 days since last diary on Wed May 15, 2019 at 02:17 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 384 (22 days since last comment on Sat Apr 10, 2021 at 10:26 AM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Focus on “system failures” is technically indefensible and morally bankrupt, 37 comments, 97 recommends
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Living with Donald Trump as a president is a giant media event. Control the narrative, that is the prime objective. Whenever a substantial development occurs that challenges the insatiable appetite of the Trump White House for attention, Twitter...
by Wonton Tom
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on Wed May 15, 2019 at 02:17 PM PDT
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We’ve all see the images of those mysterious, massive stone statues that stand as silent sentinels of a civilization that was incapable of recognizing an existential disaster in its midst.
We’ve all asked the same questions – how could this happen?...
by Wonton Tom
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Every once and a while an issue comes along that fits a person’s particular line of expertise. Who would have expected a mass killing at a school would have given me the opportunity to take a swing at what is passing for ‘critical thought’ on...
by Wonton Tom
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There is a Creamery just down the road and Sunday was just the perfect day for the first ice cream cone of the season. It was one of those rare combinations of warm sunshine tempered with just the ...
by Wonton Tom
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I.
Life is just
another spectator sport.
There is only
room for so many players.
The rules are
too complex.
It's safer
on the sidelines,
with a soda and some chips.
by Wonton Tom
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Recently I happened to find myself at a gathering where the mother of an Iraqi War combat veteran spoke. This woman’s son had participated in combat and also suffered a bomb injury and so in ...
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on Mon May 26, 2014 at 09:35 AM PDT
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- By Karl Grossman “Let’s be clear: Deploying weapons in space crosses a threshold that cannot be walked back,” stated retired U.S. Army Colonel John Fairlamb in a piece in the The Hill, the Washington, D.C. news website. Fairlamb knows the weaponization...14 comments 18 Recs
- Global glacial melt rates doubled from 2000 to 2019. Alaska lost ice 3 times faster than Antarctica.The rate of global glacial melting nearly doubled over twenty years according to a detailed scientific report published in the prestigious journal Nature. What’s shocking to me is that the amount ...19 comments 44 Recs
- Google Earth 3D timelapse of Lake Mead shows just how screwed the American west is from megadrought.The stress test is coming for states like Arizona as water levels likely to dip below 1075 feet in June. The mega-drought in the American west means water restrictions are looming in the next few months. Climate change has arrived in the Colorado basin...142 comments 265 Recs
- We are pretty fortunate here in Northeast Wisconsin. Our COVID hospitalizations are much lower than in late 2020/early 2021, but early morning on Friday I had a reminder that this disease is still deadly, still a threat to people of various ages,...75 comments 129 Recs
- NOTE: I’ll be reposting this diary every week or so throughout the 2021 Special Enrollment Period to make sure this information gets to as many people as possible. All 50 states + DC have re-opened enrollment on their respective ACA exchanges in...9 comments 57 Recs
- “We might (and I stress might) have already reached and passed a point where there is really no turning back for Thwaites, no matter what we as humans do to our climate,” Alastair Graham, the University of South Florida and co-author of the study. New...114 comments 234 Recs
- As Georgia's voter suppression law drains state revenues, GOP goes to war with Major League BaseballStacey Abrams is a visionary advocate but she's also just a damn good politician. As rumors swirled that Major League Baseball might pull the 2021 All-Star Game from Georgia to protest the state's newly enacted voter suppression law, Abrams did what...165 comments 259 Recs
- These aren't churches, so what the ignorant cops don't get is, what they're doing is tearing down the womb of the Earth Mother. It is a place to cleanse and then to be reborn - then have the strength to deal with life's trials and tribulations....149 comments 365 Recs
- On,March 7 when they stopped collecting data, the Covid Tracking Project recorded 1,156,241 COVID-19 tests in the US although earlier that week the numbers were up to 1.5 million a day. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the UK, with about...4 comments 8 Recs
- Less than a week ago, someone stole my credit card number and details, I still don’t know how. Large charges immediately drained that account. It just so happened that we discovered it right away before we were overdrawn and that account...374 comments 446 Recs
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