The good news is more and more people believe that Global Warming is real and caused by human activity. The bad news is – Global Warming is real. According to Reuters: 1. 2006 is set to be the world’s sixth-warmest year since records began 150 years ago 2. The ten warmest years have all occurred […]
A BRIGHT IDEA
Today I paid $9 for a Compact Fluorescent Bulb when I could have bought an incandescent bulb for about a $1. Why would I do this? Because every little bit helps. According to this site: Most electricity used for lighting is generated in coal and oil power plants. These power plants pollute the atmosphere and […]
MATCH POINT
I dreamed that Bob and I were in Mexico. We were sitting at a table in a restaurant with Kris, Heidi, John and Avery. As we waited for our drinks, an old woman with crooked eyeglasses came over. She chatted on about this and that as she reached a thin arm across the table to […]
OOPS THERE GOES ANOTHER CIVIL LIBERTY
October was a bad month for the civil rights of American citizens. It began with the passing of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, in which, as Garrison Keillor put it: The U.S. Senate, in all its splendor and majesty, has decided that an “enemy combatant” is any non-citizen whom the president says is an […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE
We returned from an idyllic 5 days on the beach via a series of humiliating airport security encounters to find a post election political shift. I’d like to hope this indicates an end to war, tyranny and greed. Meanwhile, the threat levels were high and airport security invasive. We took two flights down and two […]
