Hi,
Al Gore is ready to build on the success of “An Inconvenient Truth” and start organizing to solve the climate crisis. He’s working to get hundreds of thousands of messages to Congress demanding real action to stop global warming. And he’s asking for our help.
Can you help out by signing the petition at the […]
Filed under: Politics on December 19th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Making chili is an experience for me. It is not merely cooking something. I just can’t cook chili on demand. It just has to happen. Whether it’s some sort of celestial convergence, the number of days before or after the equinox, or simply that I’m hungry, I get this feeling in my […]
Filed under: Food on December 16th, 2006 | Add Comment! »
Normally in our popular culture, the hippie is represented as a fairly benign, burned out and ultimately harmless individual. One afternoon a cartoon my daughter was watching a show called Mr. Meaty on the Nickleodeon network. It looked pretty funny with some of the unconventional animation I’ve grown to love, but the plot […]
Filed under: General Observations on December 14th, 2006 | Add Comment! »
by: DPA 5 December 2006
Madrid - Global warming is threatening to put ski resorts out of business in Spain, where nearly all ski slopes are closed for lack of snow, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday. The Pyrenees only have a quarter of the amount of snow which is usual for […]
Filed under: Politics on December 12th, 2006 | Add Comment! »
As someone who suffers from an addiction and works a Twelve Step program, I’ve notice that when Ive veered off the path of the steps, it’s usually because I fail to see how much better my life is as a result of clean living. I think sometimes that I have everything under control and […]
Filed under: Recovery on December 11th, 2006 | Add Comment! »
I was watching the first game of the World Series. Ostensibly as a way of paying tribute to the great American game, John Mellencamp and band came out to home plate to perform his new song “Our Country” before the National Anthem.
It was a little jingoistic; a little sappy but enough John […]
Filed under: General Observations on December 9th, 2006 | Add Comment! »
I consider myself a reasonably environmentally aware person, but after seeing Al Gore’s ”An Inconvenient Truth” last night I realized that I, like millions of Americans am woefully ignorant of the impending crisis that is global warming.
Last week on this blog I wrote an article in which I THOUGHT I was exaggerating the […]
Filed under: General Observations on December 2nd, 2006 | Add Comment! »
