I am so sad...

by Richard Cranium

I don't even know where to start.  It's like I've been kicked in the gut over the past week.  Repeatedly.

The Gulf of Mexico is being destroyed.  But it's apparently not that big of a deal.  Mothers let their kids swim in the muck, and then say they'll get some Goo Gone to clean them off.  There's no national outrage about this?

250,000 lives a week will be destroyed because the Senate decided to recess, that a vacay was important, more important than resolving unemployment compensation funding for millions of their fellow citizens.

Day by day, I see more silent suffering by those of us who just hang on, day to day.  And I fear there is no future for us.  I am so sad...

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Humanity in One Million Years (Part 2)

by Troubadour

In part two of this series, I extend the historical and biological concepts articulated in Part 1 into predictions for the near future.  Although Part 1 is quite lengthy, I advise reviewing it before you proceed with this entry, just to get a sense of my underlying thinking and overall trajectory.  In the current diary, I take a look at the present state of humanity from a high-level perspective and apply energy-maximization principles to predict change over the next decade.  In each subsequent Part, the scope of time examined will increase by an order of magnitude and specific states increasingly blended into recursive patterns of long-term change.

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