Monthly Archives: May 2010

I am following the story on the Israeli attack on the Palestinian aid marine convoy carefully, though at this time I don’t have any comment. If anyone would like to participate in fact finding, you are invited to post relevant … Continue reading →

“To the victors go the spoils,” is how the old saying goes. The winners get the “goods or property seized from a victim after a conflict, especially after a military victory.” Indeed. The spoils of America’s wars since the First … Continue reading →

Five years ago, a National Academy of Sciences study concluded that the decision to use a dispersant requires making a choice: saving the beach at the expense of the ocean. By Carol van Strum, edited by Eric Francis. While BP … Continue reading →

By Len Wallick We are able to find everything in our memory –Marcel Proust Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a national holiday set aside in tribute to those who have given their lives in military service. It … Continue reading →

Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Aquarius monthly of July 1, 2001 There exists in every person the struggle between the need to conform and the need to be an individual that is the hallmark of the sign Aquarius. … Continue reading →

Today’s Oracle takes us back to the Aquarius daily of March 21, 2006 Few things in the world are as neat as we want them to be. Anyone who presumes to know someone’s feelings in advance has pretty much left … Continue reading →

By Eric Francis with help from Carol van Strum from Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves The Shaving Brush and Mug Discovering my first shaving brush (at the local food coop) and mug (with some searching around … Continue reading →

As I was driving toward the Gulf yesterday, I started to feel the environment: a secluded inland sea, a mile deep, its floor carved with canyons, with warm, powerful currents. I was wondering how many days it would take a … Continue reading →