Tweeters has increasingly been becoming a pale shadow of its former varied
self. It was a place at which every topic was permitted because people
were able to delete what they didn't want to read. If I remember, not all
of the limericks were bird related.

The apparent belief that one can segregate out bird sightings from the
rest of life is a a major part of the problem we are facing: in case you
haven't heard, we are at the front egde of a major extinction event. A
significant cause of that is the belief of certain religions that god will
take care of everything or that he is due back any day now so we should
use it all up (remember James Watt?).

confront the best available information on what is going on and not want
to scream doesn't understand. Don understands.


Dale Goble
Moscow