[Continued from HERE.] 6. I’ve done it … my laundry, that is, by hand, rubbing one bit against the other, working my way around the whooooole thing … a t-shirt that seems not-so-big-becoming the size of an iceberg and equally as hard to manipulate. I have even had to jump out of the river in which I was washing my laundry because a crocodile came around and was on the prowl. Clean clothes suddenly don’t seem so important... more

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1. Get an idea (light bulb!) but make it fluorescent. If you do only one thing, do this: replace three normal incandescent light bulbs in your house with long-life fluorescent light bulbs (CFL’s.) Take a look HERE for a good comparison (though the prices for the compact fluorescent bulbs has gone down significantly.)... more

Is there an echo in here? I mean, in here, in my head. Or is it out there, in the big wide world. Or both? Maybe I’m having a flashback… or a hot flash… nope, can’t be that, since it’s “that” time of the month. Hmmm. Well, maybe you can tell me what’s going on… I keep having these visions:

It’s the 70’s, Schoolhouse Rock... “Energy … we’re looking to try and find some new kinds of …... more

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Unlike the era of Swift and his Gulliver, we are alive in a century where exists miraculous communication technology that has shrunk the globe and created torrential rivers of information never before attainable without many years, much money and endless effort. Unfortunately, the information has not yet been harnessed to banish ignorance and the resultant ‘isms’ it creates (racism,... more

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The issues three hundred years ago and the issues faced today have different veneers but the same old essential, "human nature" tag for behavior that is really sub-human. It’s sometimes even sub-animal. Animal behavior tends to be logical, as it is all about survival not greed, ego and judgment. Our behavior around the world today is truly Yahoo. Poor Gulliver. He knew it, even in 1714.

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I just finished reading the classic, Gulliver’s Travels. I am not sure why I hadn’t ever got to this brilliant book before, but now that I have read it, better late than never definitely seems to apply. I found it as thoroughly engrossing a satire as has ever been written. Thoroughly engrossing, and equally disturbing.

This is a book written in Ireland circa the early 1700’s. In his magnificent and perhaps mischievous races, with sometimes-bovine faces, Jonathan Swift was poking his... more