people who riot are usually people who refuse the reality of something they cannot change.

I know not everyone shares this outlook, but I have never seen any form of violence lead to good.

My mission is to leave more than I have taken. Sadly, the less and less I use, I know there are other people out there that continue to take more and more.

Equilibrium would be nice, but sadly we are way past that point.

What needs to be done should have been done 30+ years ago.

Jimmy Carter will be looked upon as a profit one day and the neo-cons the harbingers of destruction. And by association the rest of us because we were lulled into a stupor of greed and the MTV'ing of our society. It's not about what we know to be true any longer, it's what we think is true via what is feed to us via propaganda.

Copenhagen, cap n trade, kyoto and the climate change bill are nothing more than ointment for a broken femur. No amount of tsk tsking or feigned indignation will solve our problems now.

We had a saying back east on Long Island when something was considered futile. It went, "it's like shoveling shit against the tide". It my vanish for a while but when it comes back in, it's as if it never left.

What needs to be done and what is currently being passed off as "effective measures" are light years apart.

So as a result, I do what I can, even though I know in the end, it won't matter in the least.

So rather than go insane, I choose to smile and appreciate what I do have.

Nature is a magnificent thing when left along. Horrible when played with. Disastrous when ignored.

We have ignored nature for a very long time.

Nature, when it has to, can do some incredible things to heal itself.

We are experiencing that first stage in the healing process.

I smile at it's omnipotent grandeur.