Plastic Farm AnimalsSomeone told me the other day that although the US had more than enough oil, they weren’t pulling it out of the ground because they wanted to help the Middle East out by buying theirs first. I wondered how she knew this. After a little bit of research, I discovered that the United States was […]
A lot of people have figured out how to incorporate exercise into their daily routine. The other day, for instance, I saw a man making copies at the library who had parked his truck a block away at the Post Office. He got nearly all the way back to his truck before realizing he’d left […]
I have read more about Katrina than I usually do news stories. It fascinates me. The tragedy has spurred some wonderful writing, among them this from the New York Times: That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock; in the wake of last week’s hurricane, there are surely hundreds, probably thousands. What is […]
So many of the places we frequent offer evidence that man has succeeded in overcoming nature, that even the most preoccupied find themselves cheering when nature rears its head in triumph over the man made world. A few radical souls actually look forward to the day when the current civilization crumbles and nature takes back […]
The other day I saw something that really turned my stomach. No, it wasn’t the dead gecko in my notebook or the rotten pineapple behind the kitchen, or even the sight of Walker hacking up a wad on the porch – it was a Newsweek. I have not read a news story since last year […]