For a glimpse of our world, her resources and current energy supplies, monetary and political situation go here.This is the view that some folks have of the planet - resources to be dug up, drilled for, clear cut for and otherwise used to make them richer. No matter who lives there!

Civilization, in our society, is determined by television and advertising.Our society is becoming more homogenous because of this medium, and we are losing touch with where we come from and who we are. Fortunately, there are people who are studying the impact of mass media on our society and educating us in their study of Media Literacy.

Turn off the television. Read a book. Help a child

Give Peace a Chance Pass the Netiquette, Please
What is racism?
Why Drink Coors?
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words of the week or month!
QWERT (kwirt), n. [MW < OW qwertyuiop, a thirteenth]: 1. a unit of weight equal to 13 poiuyt avoirdupois (or 1.69 kiloliks), commonly used in structural engineering; 2. [colloq.] one thirteenth the load that a fully grown sligo can carry; 3. [anat.] a painful irritation of the dermis in the region of the anus; 4. [slang] person who excites in others the symptoms of a qwert.
-- Webster's Middle World Dictionary, 4th ed.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (adj):
Pertaining to a very, very long word.
from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words
by Josefa Heifitz Byrne.

And many thanks to our host server and community network La Plaza Telecommunity Foundation. Before we go on let's have some coffee. And while we are having our coffee let's think up some more abbreviations