http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/16/depression_2009_what_would_it_look_like/?page=full

Personally, I believe that most of us could do with having most of our toys and money taken away. I certainly believe it would help the planet. But the way it is happening is wrong, wrong, wrong. Unfortunately, like the Onion’s breadlines, Americans are standing in line waiting complacently while their taxes, their children’s futures, their ideals, and their principles are sent “to the showers”.

Imagine a human line, hand to hand, from coast-to-coast? There are many possibilities for who might join in. All people who are unemployed (there’s at least 12 million available) or all whose houses are underwater or people against throwing money at bad banks or …?

Politicians might finally get the message and the media would be all something like this.

recently, I’ve found myself, in discussions, making the point, ISW: “There is so much ‘waste’ in our Economy/Society that If we would remember what it is to, actually, be reflective/resourceful, and found, again, the recipe fror: the Milk of Human kindness, many would have more, and all at lower costs”

or, differently, why so many people bought into the v.2000 model of Hope & Change: “Compassionate Conservatism”

past that, though, I couldn’t resist its reminding me of:
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=web&lng=&q=High-frequency+Active+Auroral+Research+Program&x=26&y=15