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• Report: Global biodiversity down 30 percent in 40 years

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Back in 1972 when I took freshman biology, the professor presented materials showing that if population and consumption continued to grow exponentially, as they certainly have, we'd hit a major impasse around the year 2020.

• Despite 'pink slime,' beef business is booming

  Sun May 13, 2012
  • The meatfest can't last, as there will soon not be enough grassland to feed the cattle we would need to keep up with the growing population and demand.

• Donor warned Obama campaign against considering John Edwards as running mate

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Blame Obama for this? You might as well blame him for global warming or bad business practices. It is not a president's responsibility to expose someone else's bad judgment or character. Have you not had enough negative advertising or holier than thous judging others?

• Family pit bulls maul 2 California toddlers in separate incidents

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • Pit bulls are not for everyone. Some will eventually turn on people for no known reason. SPCA dog handlers should not be encouraging people with children to adopt pit bulls, especially since we often don't know what horrors the poor animal may have experienced as a puppy.

• Addicted to your cellphone? Nomophobia on the rise

  Tue May 8, 2012
  • It is sad to see so many people oblivious to their surroundings and glaring unhappily at some tiny plastic device or else chattering incessantly on what seems to control them like alien growths stuck to their cheeks - and it is also unfortunate that conversations are virtually impossible with these …

• Boy, 12, crushed to death in roll-up gate

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Another sad case of penny wise, pound foolish. There was a time when everything wasn't so automated and dehumanized. Jobs are being lost by this sort nutty mechanization. You think you're safe? Think again!

• Maryland court finds pit bulls are 'inherently dangerous'

  Wed May 2, 2012
  • We should not discriminate against pit bulls? As if dogs are people! There is nothing wrong with dogs, I love em, too, but there is something wrong with people being kinder to dogs than to people.

• 5 anarchists nabbed in plot to blow up Ohio bridge

  Tue May 1, 2012
  • Notice how angry everyone is nowadays, and quick to blame everyone else? Anarchists have been around since the industrial revolution, and they are no different than Islamic terrorists in their harnessing of negative energies for destruction and mayhem.

• A crime by the highway: Poisoning trees to make billboards easier to see

  Thu Apr 26, 2012
  • The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great--and for destroying those who destroy the earth." REV 11:18

• Money, drugs, guns and gangs: Child actors shame Mexico's politicians with mockumentary

  Fri Apr 13, 2012
  • Here, as in Mexico, we need to dissolve all political parties and idealogies and try a democracy that works for people and not for special interests. Together, when we really act as one, we can really get things done, for a change! I know it can't happen without a major shift in consciousness.