Over the last few years, it’s been amazing to see how social media has united people globally in various causes from ecological concerns to political uprisings. These days it’s much harder for a government to silence people, to censor them, and keep them under wraps. (more…)

Cruel Pig Pen

Food animals are on my mind a lot lately. I have viewed some intensely disturbing video of how farm animals are treated, from pigs that are kept in such tight areas they can not even roll over and never walk a single day in their life, to cows that are brutally beaten, have broken bones and backs, and are made to suffer cruel, agonizing deaths. (more…)

Care2.org Act on Banning Drilling

While I was busy raising a family, then starting a career, the world turned and churned even though I wasn’t paying attention.  I filtered information that came to me so it only concerned science and technology. Now, that my kids are grown, my career is doing well, and I have the energy, I decided to poke my head out in the world to see what was going on. UGH! Mayhem, freedoms being violated, ignorance running rampant, and the loonies seem to be taking over. (more…)