Via Malcontenti
@viamalcontenti
Posting a lot about climate and environment and their advocates.
this was just posted, with thoughtful remarks on Jews losing control of the narrative about everything Israel. a wise point. but there is an even more unsettling one: people are no longer entering into this as a far away story at all, but as excruciating realities that require new responsibilities.
Ok, so did the Attorney General meet behind closed doors to promise GOP Senators money from the $1776b slush fund? Do we have five Republican Senators who will vote to void this un-Constitutional monstrosity?
Doonesbury today: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... featureassets.amuniversal.com/assets/3e9a9...
For Earth Day 2026 consider becoming a member of AMERICAN RESILIENCY, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing the best climate impact information about American places to the public. Follow this link: www.americanresiliency.org
Have a solemn, reflective, reverential, joyful, anxious, political Earth Day. (photo, Hayden Prairie, Howard County, Iowa)
You know Hegseth's idiocy about rules of engagement is his fixation on John Rambo in the 3rd movie,"Just tell me one thing, sir, this time do we get to win?" Because we can never lose except for our inept leaders and gutless betraying public. Hegseth is going to win VN once and for all, in Iran.
The most eloquent reply to Pres. Doofus: (note the comparison in the map is not the pre-industrial period of climate thought but 1990-2020, the warmest era in the records)
DOUG TALLAMY on "Home Grown National Parks," part of the Conservation in Action Series Wed, August 13, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Museum of the Grand Prairie, at Lake of the Woods, Champaign County Forest Preserve District, Mahomet, IL
This Sunday 10 August at Broomfield Park, North London, brought to you by St. Harmonica's Blues Club! THE CUSTOMTONES plus opener FRAN McGILLIVRAY BAND, music at 2.30 Join us for great music while enjoying the delights of a terrific bar courtesy of the Little Green Dragon Ale House and food too.
Happy Rosenstock-Huessy's birthday. Amazing social theorist born in 1888 in Berlin. On sabbatical at what was then U of Breslau, 30 January 1933. Proud to say he never taught one day under the Nazis. Came to Harvard, then settled into a long career at Dartmouth. Read SPEECH AND REALITY.
22 books and 1 poem in 23 days, significant for me. no explanations or justifications. Day 23, the poem.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, things influential for me, no explanation or justification. Book 21.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, things influential for me, no explanation or justification. Book 20.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, things influential for me, no explanation or justification. Day 19.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, things influential for me, no explanation or justification. Day 18.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, things influential for me. no justification or explanations given.
22 books and a poem in 23 days (more or less), important to me. no explanations or justifications. Day 16, maybe.
22 books and a poem, influential for me, in 23 days. No explanations or justuducations. (This is really just the Marcus "Repressive Tolerance" essay.)
22 books and 1 poem in 23 days, things influential for me. no explanations or justifications. Day 13, I think. Today, a bonus book.
22 books and a poem, influential to me, in about 23 days, no explanation or justification. Day 13.
22 books and a poem influential to me, in about 23 days, important to me. no explanation or justification. Day 12, I think.
22 books and a poem in 23 days, influential for me. no explanation or justification. Day 11.
22 books and a poem in 23 days. no explanation or justification. Day 10.
22 books and 1 poem, influential to me, in 23 days. No explanations or justifications. Day 9
22 books and a poem influential to me, in 23 days. no explanations or justifications. Day 8, with a bonus book.
22 books and a poem influential for me, in 23 days. no explanations or justifications. Day 7.