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Favorite Quotes “If you, as a climate activist, don’t also fight for a free Palestine and an end to colonialism and oppression all over the world, then you should not be able to call yourself a climate activist.” —Greta Thunberg “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” —Greta Thunberg

On “No Kings Day,” June 14, 2025, over five million demonstrated in over 2,000 locations in the United States against Donald Trump's attempted authoritarian takeover of the United States government and a variety of his illegal or unpopular policies. Over 500 turned out in Rolla, Missouri — perhaps the largest protest ever in Rolla. Photos below.

Climate Catastrophe: Graphs & Commentary (last update: June 13) Short version Full essay	Rollaites for Peace Peace vigils have been suspended until further notice. Check back often. Newsletters will be posted occasionally, maybe once a month. Click here for June 27 newsletter (latest)
Julian Assange: Free as a Bird Cartoon — June 2024
Recent Writings on the Massacre in Gaza and Related Topics (last update June 1) The Book I've Waited 20 Years For (Dec. 2022) Writings on the Russo-Ukrainian War and Related Topics (last update March 18)
Gas or Electric? An inquiry into greenhouse gas emissions (last update: Nov. 2024)	I Still Love Dr. Seuss March 2021
	It's Your Choice: an absurd farce June 2024
	Joe Biden on Cognitive Decline Cartoon — June 2024

Writings and Cartoons on COVID-19 Pandemic
Recent Writings on the COVID-19 Pandemic (last updated July 8, 2024)		The Lone Ranger meets the Coronavirus
On Evaluating Vaccines Sept. 2021
This Medicinal Plant May Protect Against COVID-19 Infections (humor)
Developing Herd Immunity (a modest proposal) Updated Sept. 1, 2020		More COVID-19 Writings and Cartoons
Short Quotes for the Coronavirus Era
“If you hear of a plague in a land, then do not go into it. If it happens in land where you are, then do not go out of it.” —Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)	“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.” —Benjamin Franklin	“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” —Richard P. Feynman	“The mental boundaries we keep—between the human and the wild—are more porous than we may have ever imagined.” —Gavin Van Horn

Benjamin Franklin first Postmaster General of the United States of America
Benjamin Franklin
Famous Sayings of Benjamin Franklin
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”	“As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”	“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”	“All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.”

Photos of Vigils and Demontrations at the Rolla Post Office
No War with Iran	Weekly Peace Vigil
2019 Global Strike for the Climate
Save Our Postal Service

Articles, Cartoons, Videos, Poems, Photos and More
last updated March 2020 Poems About My Favorite Creatures (book)	My Favorite Climate Strike Photo
last updated March 2020 Grandpa Reads (videos)
2014 — 2022 Poems Are Made by Fools Like Me (six poems)
October 2018 The Climate and the Military (talk at awards party)
July 2018 How Global Warming Can Cause Earthquakes (video)	April 2018 The War Against Sex and Other Misbegotten Wars (article)
August 2017 Our Indigestible Sun (slide show of eclipse)	May 2017 Russian National Ballet Sleeping Beauty (commemorative image)
March 2017 Of Science and Marches (article)	September 2015 Gender Identity (cartoon, myth & discussion)
January 2015 A Cartoonist Must Die (article and cartoon)	Earthday 2014 Plant a Tree for the Lorax (video: Telling the Lorax story and playing the Lorax game.)
January 2014 World's Greatest Dinosaur Museum (cartoon)	December 2013 Thoughts on Evolution and the Duckbill Platypus (cartoon and poems)
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