Old fossils fueling the lonliness flames . . .

It's Tews' day and the mailbox is heating up again . . .

Burning down the oil industries … Al Gore's TED update on the struggles with the fossil fuelers.

A different and more positive note on the energy scene: Seawater is being used to fuel nuclear fusion.

The only way to become more successful than most people is to be willing to do something most people aren’t willing to do. . . .The only model for success is to avoid most of the world’s models for success. – Mark Manson

Lest we forget: Today in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.

As the gods in olden stories

turned mortals into laurel trees and crows

to teach them some kind of lesson,

so we were turned into Americans

to learn something about loneliness.

– Tony Hoagland, At the Galleria Shopping Mall. Poetry 2009.