Cartoon – Winter Wonderland
Author: Antarctica Journal
Cat runs for senate – comes in 3rd place
■ A cat that ran for the U.S. Senate in Virginia received about 7,000 write-in votes in last week’s election, according to his owners. That means Hank, who hails from Springfield, Va., can claim third place behind Democratic victor Tim Kaine and Republican also-ran George Allen.The human candidates were separated by 180,000 votes, which means that Hank did not affect […]
Read moreBenjamin Franklin Quote – Good For Making Excuses
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” – Benjamin Franklin
Read morePoem – Overpass (By Allison Grayhurst)
Overpass In the gravel hole slumbering in cold fatigue open and open is tomorrow never arriving. But pale and pasty sickness in my mirror is all I see when I look at my changing body, changing again to form a great wonder. Weak as a broken limb, my mind is empty of inspiration and I am drifting with this […]
Read moreQuote – Beliefs, Struggle, and Victory
“The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.” Jonathan Kozol
Read moreRob Brezsny Quote – Be An Enlightened Monarch
“Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire’s White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii’s Big Island. You own everything, my dear sovereign — the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as […]
Read moreCartoon – The Interrogation
Harriet Tubman Quote – Reach For The Stars
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ― Harriet Tubman
Read moreFish on drugs
Psychiatric medications passing through sewage treatment plants could be dramatically changing the behavior of fish. After researchers discovered low levels of common anti-anxiety drugs called benzodiazepines in perch living downstream from a treatment plant in southern Sweden, they tested the same concentrations of the drug on fish in the lab. They found that the medicine made the fish lose their […]
Read moreOscar Wilde Quote – Be Yourself
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
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