Censorship
Because the desire for censorship is one of the opinions that have value mostly as helping us recognize an unsupportable case...
And, meanwhile, if people really are "upset" by other people's free speech--not threats or slander or breaches of privacy, just ideas or opinions that don't suit them--there may be a cure for them. It may involve deliberately exposing them to what upsets them, to desensitize them.
Green
This poet gets it. True Green as distinct from Dollar Green. Living sustainably on the land, or in the "transhumanist" unsustainable fantasy of billions living in stack-and-pack cement shacks, eating genetically modified, chemical-sodden foodoid stuff that probably would end up being Soylent Green.
Wailing
Can New York City be saved? Is it just one big example of why human beings should not be as close together as they are there?
Zazzle
I've been neglecting Zazzle for a while. Here is your new Save the Butterflies folder design. The fun part is that it's fully customizable. You could order your folders with a black background, a picture from your files in the middle, the name of the person you're giving them to and the name of that person's school above and below, and you'd still be giving a dollar to the campaign to protect Monarch butterfly habitat.
Another part of Zazzle that is great fun is that, if you use a link I gave you to buy someone else's design, I actually get--or, in this case, PIRG gets--more of a commission than when you use a link I gave you to buy my design. The site was designed to encourage people to promote one another's work.
I found a beautiful photo for the Connecticut "Save the Butterflies" postcard. Connecticut doesn't really have a State butterfly. Their State flower is kalmia, which is pollinated by our big showy Tiger Swallowtails among other butterflies.
The stories of Connecticut's State symbols, especially the official Hero, Heroine, and Troubadour, were pleasant to read. You might want to look them up at https://portal.ct.gov/about/state-symbols
The "Save the Butterflies" postcards are designed for sending Glyphosate Awareness messages to elected officials, who may remember a time when a homicidal maniac slipped nasty stuff into the envelopes on a few letters. It's not easy, but it has been done. Elected officials' mail is sorted by staff, often by college students. We don't want to add any unnecessary stress to their lives. So when we want to make more of a statement than mere e-mails can make, we send them postcards.
However, these postcards are pretty and suitable for sending to anyone on any occasion. You may customize them as you see fit. You could, for example, change the Glyphosate Awareness message to something recommending a student you know for a Service Academy or some other special program for which students are supposed to be recommended by Congressmen. Zazzle would still direct the royalty payment to the "Save the Butterflies" campaign.
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