We can do to the Senate what Brits did to the House of Lords! (tags)
After two centuries as an anti-Democratic force, the Senate needs to adapt or it might wake up one day and find that its powers have been stripped down to ceremonial engagements. Don’t laugh! Our neighbors from across the pond not too long ago did exactly this to the House of Lords.
Author-Artist-Scientist Laura Cunningham on "Forgotten Landscapes of California" (tags)
For her book, Cunningham spent over 20 years illustrating how California might have looked before the arrival of Europeans. Her artwork often goes back centuries and even millennia (and on a few occasions all the way to the ice age).
Holocaust Museum For Persecuted Heretics? (tags)
Still it is time for crisis-plagued modernity to look beyond last century’s WWII and Hitler’s propaganda and deeds, and even to the persecution of Jews in general over the centuries, to a ‘larger’ picture of religious persecution, and to especially contemplate an underlying psychology behind it all—that mankind might gain a more balanced interpretation of religion’s politics—because religions have been ‘especially’ political—as they still are today in our own time—and as they were from time immemorial—as we will ‘only’ begin to explore.
THE ETHICS OF THE CONVENIENCE OR THE JOURNALISTIC SUICIDE (tags)
Should we bury the ethics because of the politics?
Will indigenous agriculture save our climate? (tags)
An ancient Amazon Indian way of fertilising the soil appears to be the ideal remedy for saving the climate, as well as reducing famine and producing cleaner energy. But does it really work?
Perhaps the alternative is to hate themselves.
POLITICAL AUTISM...