Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Summer Re-Run: "Earthlings Unite"

Posted by Mickey Z on 06/29 at 11:20 AM

  2. Earthlings Unite..., Great article Mickey. The Eraser, I like that and requires fewer letters to write than my name. I’m always looking for simplistic approaches to living.

    I sent the Grapes of Wrath paragraph down the local email pike. Hopefully I’ll catch everyone between their 23 hour nap.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/29  at  12:00 PM

  3. Hi Joe and all…
    Great article about ‘holistic justice’ Mickey.

    I guess I am alone in not celebrating the new NY marriage law.  It seems to me to be a step backwards in achieving holistic justice.  It further marginalizes all who are not married. Some for reasons of health, opportunity, culture, religion, etc do not/can not marry. I support a ‘next of kin law’ in which ALL people would be given equal rights. Estimates range up to 2000 legal rights that come with marriage.  Why should some be denied those rights?  That would be like trying to end racism by giving blacks rights that are equal to whites - but exclude all who are neither black or white. All with tan skin would be left out.

    In addition - why is the government involved at all?  It seems to me that marriage is a cultural/religious event. Why should the government be involved at all?

    On a personal note...when the public debate was going on where I live, the literature from the gay community specifically stated that the legal rights that accompany marriage should NOT be granted to anyone who was not married.

    DN reported that the USA is building a bigger and better facility to build nuclear weapons in New Mexico.

    And about health care - the resigning CEO of Fletcher Allen received a 1.9 million dollar compensation package per year during the approx 8 years that she was employed there.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  06/29  at  02:50 PM

  4. Hello RMJ..., shall we celebrate the bread crumbs tossed to us by the great deciders?

    The only liberation I could feel is when all politicians and those who abuse their authority have leaped into the grand canyon. Marriage is just another business transaction with rules imposed upon us by the state, the generals, the church and those who agree with the 3 stooges. The theatrics, the lies and contradictions, people see it, hear it, yet still obey. It’s unbelievable!

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/29  at  05:20 PM

  5. You know, sometimes I feel such a frustration about this degenerate society, I feel myself unable to speak or think knowing that most people don’t care about anything.

    Maybe some people prop up the most heinous authorities because that’s the only thing they clearly understand about this insanity. If it’s that simple, it makes everything scarier yet!

    How can anyone listen to and see such degenerate bullshit day after day and not be completely fed up?

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  06/29  at  05:48 PM

  6. Such is life is an alleged democracy. While any sane person would agree that all rights should apply to all living things, we’re left to celebrate bread crumbs.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/30  at  05:57 AM

  7. Joe #3, the Grand Canyon might not be big enough!

    Perhaps when something is so big, and to see anything else means going out of your way to see around the edge...you assume that everything you can see IS the entirety or reality. And if someone thinks they can see everything, looking elsewhere is obsolete.

    I was watching some of the “Wimbledon” tennis. One girl player from Belarus...millionaire who lives in a tax haven...who says she’s addicted to shoes.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  06/30  at  12:03 PM

  8. But then you have the idiots who argue that mountaintops are not living things and we have every right to remove them.  After reading about James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, it’s difficult for me not to think of this planet as a gigantic living organism.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  06/30  at  01:02 PM

  9. I’m going to assume that people who are for mountaint top removal are the same idiots who don’t live near the mountains they’d like to ($%^ up.  Mountains in general are just nice to stare at so of course we have to go and ($%^ that up.  : (

    Posted by __ from   on  06/30  at  01:34 PM

  10. Evening all.
    Richard Dawkins is not someone I have an enormous amount of time for, but his (sometimes justly) reviled text The God Delusion reproduced some very interesting ideas - the most germane example being the idea that non-sentient geological formations ‘reproduced’. Note, they certainly move, and arguably also ‘feed’.

    Posted by Mew from england  on  06/30  at  05:51 PM

  11. Thanks, as always, everyone.

    New post is up for July 4 and all that.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  07/02  at  05:19 AM

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