Things of interest - to me at least

Mr. Scientific Humanism and Population Biology, E.O. Wilson, is now reaching out to the Christian audience to take responsibility for creation. And surprisingly they (and not just the Jim Wallis crowd) are reaching back...

Here's a good excerpt of Wilson's warning about what we face (from the post):
"One consequence of inaction, Wilson notes, is that in less than 20 years, the decline in freshwater ecosystems could leave 40 percent of the world's population facing chronic water scarcity. Peter Seligmann, CEO of Conservation International -- on whose board Wilson sits -- outlines another this way: "Loss of forest means loss of insects; loss of insects means loss of pollinators; loss of pollinators means loss of food, crops . . . ""

In what is academically impressive, at least to me, UVA graduates a double major in ONE YEAR - he's now doing a masters.....


Congress, that bastion of hard working, efficient, honest brokers of America's future had a typical week, in which one of their own (Bob Ney) plead guilty to conspiracy, bribery and lies and another wacko comes out of the I'm a racist closet (joining Conrad Burns, Robert Byrd and George Allen)
"Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), in a closed Senate Armed Services Committee meeting: “We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we’d be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.” (The Senator’s office disputes the word “we.”) "

Just think, were we in an actual democracy people would be rioting in the streets.... like in Hungary, instead of wallowing in status quo apathy.