I was planning to plant peas Sunday morning. The moon was nearly full and therefore it should be a good time to put seeds in the ground to sprout. It was also a good time…
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Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Happy Easter, Christians! I was once reliably informed by a man who lived next door to a woman who had a cousin…
Striped bass came under direct attack in early March when a Bakersfield Republican introduced legislation that would eliminate all striped bass regulations, protection and habitat improvement with the goal of knocking the nonnative species into…
There are certain moments which will always stand out in the mind of Minnesota Twins fans. Where were you when the Twins made it to the World Series in 1987 by beating the Detroit Tigers…
The photo — this one in the New York Times, above the fold — had an uncanny vintage look to it: there on the front page was a black-and-white photograph from 1960—the first black-and-white that…
I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care. “Repo Men,” starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, portrays a dystopian future…
45 years ago, as a 17 year old high school senior, I cringed as I saw the pictures of civil rights marchers being brutally beaten and having dogs set upon them by police officers in…
There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government,…