Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – Remnants (By Gary Beck)
Remnants The once proud avenues of vaunted shops now are deserted. Only the ghosts of employees past haunt the cobwebbed stores, all that remains of the departed unable to get other jobs, abandoned by their masters, unable to adapt to changing circumstances, conditioned to servitude, unfit for opportunities limited to the few capable of functioning in the Information Age.
Read morePhyllis Rose Quote – That Is What Love Is
“Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.” – Phyllis Rose
Read moreCosts To U.S.A. Since 9/11
The United States costs of military and nation-building activities in Afghanistan and Iraq since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, is approaching half a trillion dollars – nearly the same cost as the 13-year-long Vietnam War.
Read moreCartoon – It’s A Wonderfully Exciting Life
George Carlin Quote – The American Dream
“They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin
Read moreCartoon – Fear of Bats
Cartoon – Native Operating System
Giant flightless bird wandered the Arctic 50 million years ago
It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder that describes the first and […]
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