You might have thought the anti-vaxxers were a recent phenomenon, but no, these clips are from the ‘Buster Brown’ comic strip, published in the New York Herald in 1904, when smallpox was endemic throughout the world

I am the ruling virus
That now strikes fear in you
My armies come in numbers
beyond your means to know

I’ve allowed you all to live here
for a million years or more
you’ve abused my hospitality
and all others in my care

You are now a problem
To others…

floods, hurricanes, plagues.

these are all narure’s incursions that disturb our status quo

what we have difficulty understanding and accepting, is that these have a single factor in common: they are manifestations of the unlimited power that nature possesses. …

The sideswipe of disaster
Was bound to come one day
We thought it would be warfare
Or a strike from outer space

Instead the smallest of us
Those we cannot see
Know that we have done enough
To bring Earth to her knees

So they’re rising up to save her
(it’s…

If in the name of tolerance we accept these theofascists, they will eventually take control. When they have control, our tolerance will not be reciprocated. If we let it happen, there will be no turning back. …

In both situations, each was seen as a harmless buffoon who would be controlled by the establishment when he got into office.

There was even a Nazi movement to replace FDR. Had the Japanese not attacked in 1941, who knows where that might have led? Certainly the ‘new deal’ was…

The same crossing in 2006 took just 5 minutes (and we thought that was long time), so the bureaucracy now is not a remnant of 9/11. Each crossing since 2006 has got longer and more obstructionist, the questions more surreal: Was I or had I ever been a member of…

But on that day the course of humankind shifted towards modernity and away from agrarian feudalism and totalitarian rule. …