June 4th, Friday

Looks like the rains of yesterday will continue into today. At least the temperatures down a few degrees. It's 73°, in the humidity is it 95% as a wide range falls outside. I see from the news reporting that ex-president Trump is telling those around him that the supreme Court…

Friday, November 13, 2020

The morning starts out warm and gray. An overall, overreaching, overwhelming gray to the world. Even the normally unheard cows in the neighbor's pasture are mooing mournfully. This transitional weather leaves a lot to be desired. Waiting for the change, anticipating the change even, frustrated by the slowness of the…

What to Be Afraid Of

The sun, for starters. Also lightning, choking on a chicken bone, drowning in the bathtub, and people who text and drive. But probably not terrorism. Source: What to Be Afraid Of Timothy Egan has I point that has never left my mind since the first World Trade Center bombing... It's…

The Health Of America Starts On The Farm

  Mark Bittman makes the point in his column at the New York Times today, that the biggest killer of Americans isn't guns but industrial agriculture. A point I have made repeatedly with my family over the years. ...the root of that dangerous diet is our system of hyper-industrial agriculture,…

Is It Really Warmer?

You tell me... November 2012 was the globe's 5th warmest November on record, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Monday. NASA rated November 2012 the 2nd warmest November on record. Global temperature records begin in 1880. November 2012 global land temperatures were the 6th…

Obama For President

  It shouldn't surprise anyone that knows me... But. I took myself down to the polls on Saturday and cast my ballot for America. And contrary to the signs I have been seeing scattered around the county, I cast my vote for the version of America that I think is embodied in the Obama presidency.…

ACA… What Does It Do?

Now that the Supreme Court has declared the ACA to be constitutional I find most people still don't know what is in the law... I don't really know. My wife doesn't understand it. I know most of the folks I talk to don't. From the comments and email I get,…