I find myself spending more of my time outside than I am used to. Yes, it’s hot out…And dry. It almost reminds me of my summer in south Texas back in the early 1970’s. Unusually dry heat for Southeast Texas at this time of the year.
Walking the trail I’ve laid out around the backyard and [...]

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One of the things I like most about this thing we call Blogging is number 2 on Patry Francis’ list. And she ranks up there at the top of my amazing people list. Patry published this list back around Thanksgiving in Twenty O’Six. I stumbled across it again today as I was looking through some [...]

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Leave to a youngish mind in a middleaged, out of shape body to discover the hard way (always the hard way) that he cannot still do everything he once did. Yesterday I decided, at long last, to finish the distruction of our dog pen that Ike had started. Bearing in mind that this dog pen [...]

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Boy, this week has flown and I hadn’t even realized I hadn’t updated anything here. The Grandson had a checkup last Friday including a couple of imunizations…And to say he hasn’t been a happy camper this week would be an understatement. Just getting through my email and newsreader each day has been a tough row [...]

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In the meantime, says Gilding, take notes: “When we look back, 2008 will be a momentous year in human history. Our children and grandchildren will ask us, ‘What was it like? What were you doing when it started to fall apart? What did you think? What did you do?’ ” Often in the middle of [...]

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The MSM is full these days of stories of the demise of the MSM. Having argued continuously for limits in the ownership of news organizations I feel that a lot of these failings can be laid at the feet of the consolidators. As in most of the rest of the financial meltdown, most of these [...]

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I missed this last Friday when it played on the local PBS station…It’s nice to be able to catch it later on the “intranets”…
Bill Moyers and Michael Pollan…What a pair. A very in-debth exploration of food policy in America ensued. Here is just a part…
BILL MOYERS: What else? Give me a list, quickly, [...]

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This one’s for you…
While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass. Their default cliché is to present him as the Old Faithful everyone already knows. They routinely salute his “independence,” his “maverick image” and his “renegade reputation” — as the hackneyed script [...]

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