We had a great date today: A matinee at Sutton Cinemas, where we watched Angelina Jolie kick ass in Salt. A lot of fun so long as you suspend your disbelief. As one of my American literature professors used to say, “fiction depends on the willing suspension of disbelief.” There was a lot of…
The fawns bounded down toward the house where the doe was grazing and began nursing immediately, but by the time I was able to grab the camera they’d stopped.
During the 1980 campaign for the Republican nomination, George H.W. Bush called Reagan’s supply-side theories “voodoo economics.” These supply-side theories included the wishful notion that tax cuts are so potently stimulative that they are self-financing. Although the resulting gargantuan deficits of the Reagan and the George W. Bush years have amply demonstrated the calamitous falsity…
A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the facts. ESSAY By Debra Peters and William DeBuys (From High Country News, http://hcn.org, July 13, 2010. Reprinted with permission) According to opinion polls, a growing number of Americans think that climate change is hogwash. They’ve been hearing that the Intergovernmental…
I expected the turnout to be low at the Nevada City Farmer’s Market this morning because of the excessive heat, but I was wrong. It was bustling as usual. Some good folks from a local Baptist Church set up a booth for the sole purpose — or perhaps the “soul purpose” — of handing…