Fellow travellers, as you all know I abhor violence. However, here is one event in which it is justified: A troupe of monkeys trained in martial arts have used these very techniques on their trainer!

What they were protesting is not clear. But I suspect that with the Copenhagen conference in full swing, they were raising awareness of climate change; telling those watching that Gaia would revolt spectacularly if we did not show respect to Her and make a global deal to end all greenhouse gas em...
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Fellow travellers, I am still appalled by the dominance of "rational" approaches to thinking that still pervade human "civilization" the world over.

Take this recent event in China: An elderly woman was shocked to find a snake with a claw in her house. She killed it, and the snake is now being examined by scientists.

No doubt they will come up with some "rational" explanation involving genetic mutation, or perhaps interbreeding with lizards. But these will be inadequate, and inaccurate.

The reas...
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