Will Snowmagedon Come Calling To The SE Texas Coast?

Now comes a fitting bookend to a winter seemingly without end. While we have missed any snow accumulations here this winter, we did have a full afternoon of flurries back

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Death And Taxes And Rebirth And Taxes

I tossed and turned in bed last night in a perfect storm of  tax related muses…nightmares…planning. I had a meeting with a CPA yesterday. I had arranged the meeting to

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Incongruences In The Internet Age

Talk about getting your head in a spin…Today I went through my daily routine of reading email as I listen to yesterdays “news” via podcasts downloaded to iTunes. I do

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The Difference Between Weather And Climate…

All of the folks that are claiming that the Earth is and has been in a cooling cycle are being disingenuous…Using weather trends to infer climate trends breaks down when

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TED Talks- Blue Zones

I found out about these Blue Zones a month or so ago. Went on the expedition with them to a Greek Island (virtually), read the info on their website, was

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Wall Street Must Be Clueless—Bonuses At Big 3 Set To Be $30 Billion

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this

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Ground Beef Recall Expanded – Slashfood

Another reason to change our methods… A ground beef recall for more than 545,699 pounds of meat has been expanded to states from North Carolina to Maine on fears of

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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman

To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.

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