The map shows us that those old dead guys who established our constitutional democracy were very perceptive. The founders were concerned that the states of Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania could run the nation, and the 10 smaller states would suffer, so they came up with the concept of a House and Senate dividing power […]
If you are like most consumers of media you know about all the horrors of global warming, climate change, global cooling, warming oceans, cooling oceans, CO2 increases, CO2 decreases, etc. Do you believe all that claptrap, or more commonly known as BS? Contrary to all the media and popular opinion there are scientists and climatologists
by Lynn Mandaville Back in April of this year there was a nationwide recall of chopped romaine lettuce because of the deaths of several people and the illnesses of many others due to e-coli contamination. Bagged, chopped romaine was taken from supermarket shelves and, I assume, destroyed, so that no more people would be harmed
“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” — Psychologist Tad Williams I’ve said it in this space before, and I’ll
by Robert M. Traxler “So far in 2018, more than 48,900 fires have burned more than 7,700,000 acres of land in the United States, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Wildfire smoke is known for its potential to wreak havoc on a person’s health, but the threats aren’t limited to the lungs. The smoky
On Nov. 8, the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. high voltage line near Poe Dam malfunctioned and started a fire in the early morning. A captain of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection looked across the dam to the river canyon and saw a 10-acre fire on the rocky slope. The access road
The massive, Victorian dining room furniture had been in the house at the Jersey shore since the house was bought in 1940, but the furniture actually dated from the 1920s, when Grandpa and Grandma Richards were married and furnished their first house in Newark. It consisted of a dining table that extended to seat 10,
“If I could have my way. I’d get myself right up today, but I can’t, so I’ll cry instead.” — The Beatles “There ain’t nothin’ I can do about it.” — The Supremes and Vanilla Fudge, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” I hear tell gas prices are going down to their lowest levels is quite
Political holy grail is that the Republicans are practicing “tribalism.” What constitutes tribalism is once more what people want it to be. “Tribalism is the state of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles. Human evolution has primarily occurred in small groups, as opposed to mass societies, and humans naturally maintain a
It was August when I met him for breakfast. He was nursing a cold and looking tired, even though he said he had a good sleep of at least eight hours. We chatted about our lives over the years, where we were in the sea of life now and what was ahead in the near
