Maggie's Farm

Surber:

Almost half the planet, or up to 3 billion people, depend on fish as the main source for protein in their diet.

There are not enough wild fish to feed all those people.

Google wants to protect cougars from themselves

Demographics and the wefare state: Europe forced to re-examine the concept of “reality”

Denmark: Clear-Cutting Forests to Save the Planet

Peterson at Am Thinker can't believe the O stood for this. I believe it. I think he thinks the enemy is us.

Germany now runs the EU - or owns the EU

Chavez moves against the food producers. Brilliant. Let them eat cake.

Catch up with Washington Reb. One quote: "even peace & love finds that violence is a final measure of intellectual, ethical and philosophical conviction."

The new culture war:

This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country’s future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise—limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose.

Mead:

We are, I fear, living on inherited social capital.  We have cultural patterns and folkways in our society that were created in a time when conscious moral struggle and individual moral responsibility were the subject of more serious introspection and education than they often are today.  These patterns are eroding and the folkways are losing their power and, unfortunately, so far we seem to be falling short in our efforts to find new ways of building spiritual commitment and a striving for moral excellence in the rising generation.

This almost never ends well; fortunately a surprisingly large number of young people today are worried about the moral and spiritual vacuum around them.