This is an op-ed written by Jerry White, founder of Survivor Corps and author of I Will Not Be Broken: Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis, on the Fourth of July, 2008:
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” These are not the words of a […]
“A study by the anthropologist Douglas Jones, in which he fed the images of various models into a computer that correlated the size and proportions of people’s faces to their age, estimated the models’ ages to be 6 or 7.” Via 2007: A Face Odyssey by Daphne Merkin
I received this brilliant response to Don’t Save the Whales, “Look the problem with tree-huggers and pagan-baby-savers and the like is that the majority of them are doing it as a form of drug-taking, doing one thing so they don’t have to deal with another. That is the intolerable bit.”
Saving the whales or not saving the whales is not the issue — or even important. What is important is deciding if you are whale-saving with all your heart (about the whales) or just using the cause as a drug (about you).