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In one of the first diaries I wrote for this website, I talked about how my efforts to put up a birdfeeder and wind chimes (seeming innocent pursuits) were being thwarted by the aggressive local squirrels. I was once kept out of the rocking chair on our front porch in the country once because a mother bird had built a nest in the rafters and her hungry babies were cheeping pitifully. She kept calling them, assuring them that she would be there soon (and I soon got the message and left). Now I’m being held hostage by hummingbirds. Wouldn’t you think I’d be able to make peace with the natural world?
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Could there be a connection between comic book heroes and real aliens, either unconscious or something created in the minds of comic book artists by the aliens themselves?

Christopher Knowles points out many instances of comic artists being pop culture prophets, among them the fact that a book was drawn involving a face on Mars in 1959, and in 1971 the concept of the stargate entered our imaginations–out of a comic book.

Is there something more powerful going on here than we realize? Could comics actually be pointing to the future of humankind, or, as William Henry puts it, “a post-human humanity” that leads to the end of the human experience as we know it?
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Listen to William Henry’s comment on this! – Sometimes facts are less believable than fiction: Could the terrorist we want more than any other, Osama bin-Laden, have once worked for the US? Even more shocking: Could something as tragic as the Iraq War been the result of one man’s confusedreligious beliefs? William Henry comments on this in our Dreamland “special event” this weekend. When you click “Listen Now,” it’s the 5th item on the list on the Windows media player.
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Here’s more evidence of global warming that nobody else is talking about. Tides from Maine to Florida have been mysteriously higher than normal this summer, with some as much as two feet above normal. This has mystified scientists, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is studying the phenomenon.
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