Archive for July, 2008
2. Unite
As every former U.S. schoolkid knows, the flag bears the words Unite, or Die (or in another version Join, or Die). I guess it was that kind of ultimatum that the colonists, who were the original independents having left their motherland for freedom of many varieties, needed in order to combine forces and interests.
Underinsured Is Unsustainable
As is the case in so many areas of contemporary American society, the kind of long-term big-picture thinking that creates sustainable systems (which one might call wisdom) is eclipsed by narrow, short-term agendas, sustainable or not.
Declaration of Independence
Having come to the precipice of our own demise, we can if we so choose see before us the terrible chasm of the tyrant’s vast and awesome power. This is a call for us to stand together, defiant of our common oppressors.
My Dog Doesn’t Match My Carpet
Yet these mothers’ actions are crimes nonetheless. Most obviously they are crimes against the helpless animals whose lives they can preserve or destroy in one stroke. But their crimes also offend their own children by modeling lack of respect and compassion for other living things and nature itself.
My Dog Doesn’t Match My Carpet
Yet these mothers’ actions are crimes nonetheless. Most obviously they are crimes against the helpless animals whose lives they can preserve or destroy in one stroke. But their crimes also offend their own children by modeling lack of respect and compassion for other living things and nature itself.
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