I thought I was wrong once, but I found out later that I was mistaken. (Seldom Seen Smith) - Edward Abbey

Modern men and women are obsessed with the sexual; it is the only realm of primordial adventure still left to most of us. Like apes in a zoo, we spend our energies on the one field of play remaining; human lives otherwise are pretty well caged in by the walls, bars, chains, and locked gates of our industrial culture.

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.