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We are living in strange times.

Batwoman is being brought back by DC Comics as a lesbian.

Schools ignore lice in children's hair because they might have to keep a child out of school. School bureaucrats say they do this because schools could lose funding from the "No Child Left Behind" program, which counts attendance numbers.

Fathers are tossing their children over high-rise balconies.

Illegal immigrants are on the march in our cities, shouting for their "rights," while American citizens stand around with their mouths open, saying nothing.

Americans spend more money on pet food than they do to feed children.

Overseas, genocide is rampant in Africa. In the Middle East, feudalism is alive and well.

Religions around the world have not made the world a better or safer place, and yet religious fanaticism in all cultures is growing. All this while the Earth warms and the icebergs melt, and cities sink deeper into the waters that surround them.

Americans keep re-electing the same inept and crooked politicians. That is, if they even bother to go to vote anymore.

Maybe we're just too fat, ignorant and satisfied to seek change. So we are getting just what we deserve when it comes to those who are leading this country.

We're in sorry shape, and yet there is one shining light that brings us out of the cave and into the sun: Science.

Science has worked wonders for the human race. But science can come to the rescue only so much.

But there might be something more we can do.

This brings me to a fanciful but satisfying conversation I had with a lovely lady I met while taking my daily walk in our fresh Florida air.

"So," she asks, as we go down the long list of awfulness that greets us each day in our morning papers, "if we were given 15 minutes to solve all the world's problems, what should we do?"

"That's a cinch," I say, since I've been thinking about this for a very long time.

"Let's put something into the waters of the world, or the air we all breathe, that would stop conception everywhere."

"Why, I was thinking along the same lines," this very nice lady says enthusiastically.

"Since all the world's troubles are made by too many humans, it's quite simple to see the solution. Once we stop babies from being conceived, human life will become more precious. If there are no young people to use as killing machines, the charismatic lunatics who rouse and inspire young people to go to war will have no audience."

Many years ago my husband and I were in Tunisia, walking along the main thoroughfare. There wasn't another woman in sight. Even though I was surrounded by many male escorts, I still felt threatened. On the street around us were thousands of young men. Testosterone filled the air, making me aware of what we were facing.

I knew then that the future was going to be filled with death and destruction.

As long as women continue to have babies as though they are reproduction machines, the world will be in trouble. Young males with no hope of bettering their lives will continue to become suicide bombers, and continue the death and destruction that's happening today.

It's not just south of the border that children are sold into slavery, just so a family can put some bread on their table. It goes on all over the world.

Think of an Earth without pollution, war, genocide, starvation — and you will see a world that knows how to control its primitive urge to procreate like rabbits.

In America, our culture is being shaken. If we don't pull our heads out of the sand, we could be in for real shocks.