Pearly Crescentspot (Phyciodes tharos)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2022-07-24 _F2A4348aaa
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde
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“Colorado River crisis is so bad, lakes Mead and Powell are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes”
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“Chile wildfires kill at least 23 people as 40C heat hampers effort to stop spread
Sixty-six people hurt and 1,500 seeking refuge in shelters after 800 homes were destroyed”
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Bridget Farrell:
"We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.
Yet we're led by the least among us -- the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons."
-- Terence McKenna
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There were balloons like this when Trump was president but no outrage:
Budget cuts to the safety net allegedly needed to avert a debt ceiling debacle:
“What is it Spock?
It’s just a balloon, it will probably be on the news for a week to distract people from something else…”
“Chinese Balloons Were Spotted Near US Bases During Trump’s Era”
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“The world’s most rapidly aging nation wants its shrinking population to concentrate in regional urban centers. However, things aren't going as planned.”
“Reining in Japan’s unstoppable urban sprawl”
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James Parris:
"And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
~Mark Twain
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