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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64210387 One more moment of “insanity” before I get started on a focused 3-day effort at finalizing a sub-project in the translation-into-Portuguese process for our little applied ecology book, Games We Play … Remember the Alamo! … I mean … the sacred Second Amendment. Stop this crazy insanity of attempts at banning or regulating guns. […]

(Prepared for Five Minute Presentations to Local Governing Entities in Seguin, Guadalupe County, mid-Jan 2023) You know … it could be that the GOOD I learned from frugal low-input/-throughput Mom & Dad, through Catholicism (& Francis’ Laudato Si’), rural Devine-Texas, civil rights & ecological movements of the 1960’s & 70’s, the times of the horrible […]

Soft-spoken words or repeated rants. Sense or nonsense. We do not communicate when we don’t interact and work at listening. pbm 7 S’s / VV->^^

I do not not really understand hate of other living things. Moreover, I do not understand unforgiveness. Both result in so many maladies. I do not understand how anyone can receive a gift without saying thank you. (A mark of educated persons is that they are grateful for the gifts given them.) All should be […]

mundane things were in the plans for this last day of 2022 (by this relatively comfortable not overly-intelligent, sort of lazy white guy who over 76 years eased himself into a doctoral degree and relatively cush livelihoods and some relatively significant power on this Eaarth) 1. work on an irs nag (irs is threatening to […]

There is good and bad in all. Nevertheless, Trump and Trumpism, Bolsonaro and Bolsonarism, Orban and Orbanism, Putin and Putinism, etc., etc. … neoliberal capitalism are for the most part evil. I have done some very evil things in my life. But I think Mom St. Louise Martin, Grandma Eva Martin, Tony Cruz; the good, […]

Some big “hoaxes”, more or less in order of magnitude … o “Positively ethical applied community ecology/PEACE” is a pipedream. Continue to live the life of a conspicuously-consuming neoliberal capitalist, go to church, believe in “God” & pray to “Him!” … and you will be blessed, in bliss, and in Heaven one day (after you […]

even if when it might make me seem like an obnoxious & ignorant turd i do try to keep my word pbm 7 S’s / VV->^^

in my oblivion and ignorance … do i deserve: empathy, some respect, credit for some learning, knowledge, and wisdom, a certain status as an elder after many years on this Eaarth, love … some concerted and lasting attempts at real communication? in their ignorance … do/did all deserve: empathy, some respect, credit for some learning, […]