Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
when he meditates, he'd better be more careful...
The Marree Man: Mystery artwork in the desert
Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say scientists
"A tiny island claimed for years by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal has disappeared beneath the rising seas, scientists in India say."'Problem solved,' says Mother Nature.
"In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the "doomsday vault," a backup against disaster -- manmade or otherwise. Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global seedbank that could be used to replant the world."Assuming they can get to Norway, or that survivors are already there, and so on...
"Recession and the constant threat of terrorist attacks have given new life to the ingrained survivalist instinct"We have treated both nature and other human beings so cavalierly that it only makes sense to be prepared for bad things to happen - from other people because we deserve it and from nature because we think we're better and stronger than it is. Americans are now living with something that other people have lived with for centuries...
"They may look like winter's answer to crop circles, but these mysterious snow rolls are in fact a rare natural phenomenon usually found only in the world's most remote and frozen regions."
I thought they knew why, but I guess they don't..."Far from being bad manners, yawning is a sign of our deep humanity, says Steve Jones. "Sure.
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