As I was reading my email and feeds I hit a link from Earth & Sky Blogs that led to the following video.
“See” how the world is changing.
Visual imagery can tell stories and truths which would be very hard to capture and communicate otherwise.
Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden since [...]

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Gray Day on Galveston Bay

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I generally don’t just copy someone else’s full post. This one twigged on a number of levels so I’ll let Jim Hightower say it himself.
Jim Hightower | WHY NOT “DRINK LOCAL?”
Friday, June 29, 2007
Posted by Jim Hightower
Listen to this Commentary
In a triumph of marketing over reasoning, the bottled water industry has turned us into [...]

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This mornings Washington Post has some interesting reading. Even David Broder is on Chaney’s case this morning. If you haven’t checked out the Post’s series on the essential Dick Chaney you really should…Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. But then we get to George Will. I am beginning to think the problem I have with [...]

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Well after a couple of weeks of playing target practice with a ray gun the sore throat they were promising has arrived. Looks like this most expensive of diets has now kicked into it’s starting phase…
Checking the news this morning I see Warren Buffett is living up to the high expectations I have come to [...]

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A great read on the “Buy Local” meme. Heavy on the economics…
The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. » Blog Archive » Guest post: Michael Shuman defends the “buy local” premise
Michael Shuman, author of the books “The Small-Mart Revolution” and “Going Local,” wrote the best rebuttal by far to Conniff’s piece that I saw, but it [...]

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As I was perusing through the morning emails the daily forecast started me thinking. Back on our first summer trip to the mountains in August of 2003 the folk down in town of Valle Crucis were all talking about the uncommonly hot weather they were having. I want to say the temperatures were in the [...]

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