http://www.windroot.com/everyman/ What's New From Every Man A Giant en http://www.windroot.com/everyman/images/bluewave125.jpg http://www.windroot.com/everyman/ 125 125 Every Man A Giant http://www.windroot.com/everyman/archives10/lazarus.htm If you could bring one person back to life from the dead, who would it be? 1...2...3...Stop! The second you read that you thought of someone. I know I did. After a bit more thought I began to make cateogries. Loved ones I would like to see again. Historical figures I would like to chat with, maybe ask them how we've done or what they would have done differently. The person I would NEVER want to see come back from the dead. But the interesting choice, the one that says the most about the person you see looking back at you in the mirror each morning was that first reaction. Why that person? That's the real question of the day. http://www.windroot.com/everyman/04201005 http://www.windroot.com/everyman/archives10/anger.htm The Tea Party know-nothing wingnuts are for the most part well-intentioned people who think that getting mad is actually doing something constructive. That would be laughably pathetic were they not so committed to their anger. What they don't get is that there are people out there both on the far right AND the far left who feed off that anger. I say left as well as right. When you put a fire under a pot full of water, the whole pot comes to a boil not just the right or the left side. And when some one individual reaches the boiling point and decides to turn the rhetoric into actions, then we got us a situation. http://www.windroot.com/everyman/04201004 http://www.windroot.com/everyman/archives10/souls.htm As soldiers, we sometimes became so numb that we lost sight of our own humanity, never mind that of the enemy's. As civilians sending our sons and daughters, husbands and wives off to war, we sometimes became so taken up with the cause that we were too willing to overlook the effects. "Wandering Souls" won't let you do that. Instead, it allows you to see the war from both sides of the lines. For the first time I understood the disillusionment that gripped Vietnamese society as the immense personal cost of the war could finally be stacked up against the slow to be realized benefits of victory. To me this book does for Vietnam what Paul Fussel's book "The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945" did for World War II. It strips away the myth of war and forces the reader to grapple directly with the cruelty of war and the lingering impacts that every war has on soldiers and civilians alike. http://www.windroot.com/everyman/04201003 http://www.windroot.com/everyman/archives10/spring.htm Cows belch and fart. When they do they add methane to the atmosphere. Given that there are 1.5 billion cows and billions of other grazing animals, we are talking lots of methane. As it turns out, methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to global warming. Now for some good news. Scientists have discovered that cows grazing on grass reduce the amount of nitrous oxide – another greenhouse gas – that is released into the atmosphere by the action of soil microbes. Longer grass keeps the microbes toasty warm so they can produce nitrous oxide. When the grass is eaten by grazing animals, the ground freezes, along with the microbes. No microbes, no nitrous oxide. Personally, I think there is an even bigger story here. http://www.windroot.com/everyman/04201002 http://www.windroot.com/everyman/archives10/snyder.htm I wish I could say this was an April Fool's joke, but it isn't. A federal appeals court has ordered Matthew Snyder's father to pay court costs to Fred Phelps and his wingnut followers at Westboro Baptist Church after it overturned a verdict awarding him $11 million in damages because Mr. Snyder showed up at his son's funeral to celebrate his death as part of some cruel and bizarre campaign being waged by Mr. Snyder's church against gays in the military. If you want to help with costs, here is the web site: http://www.matthewsnyder.org/help.html http://www.windroot.com/everyman/04201001