This picture shows the island villages of the Ma'dan, Iraqi fisher-hunter-gatherers whose self-sufficient wetlands Saddam Hussein drained. Kenneth Posner's "The Long Brown Path:
Funny Jokes? Charades? Wild Dancing? Silly Games? Feeling Foolish? People have always used winter holidays to set seriousness aside and act silly. Games like "Peanut Butter"
Dystopian novelists create worlds so deep in disaster that, by targeting the horrors, they nudge their readers to think about better solutions, You wouldn't think it,