May 18, 2013
12:01 a.m.
When out looking for a rainbow to capture for posterity, or at least until next week, all I saw were pokeweeds rustling in the wind, and starlings gone ragged thanks to Time and rough weather.
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May 17, 2013
4:46 p.m.
The simple rhyme arrived at sunrise. Once back in the walled-in warmth of his living room he wrote it down.
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May 17, 2013
5:21 p.m.
A Facebook friend of mine has dug up THIS WONDERFUL STORY from four years ago:
Bill Nye [above], the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentati...
May 17, 2013
5:21 p.m.
One morning back in 1977, I was having coffee with a certain prominent public official (an appointee, not a politician) whose judgment in most matters I usually respected.
Our conversation eventually turned to an upcoming local election, and this guy s...
May 17, 2013
5:21 p.m.
Most Americans are not following the controversies regarding the Internal Revenue Service and the Benghazi tragedy with especially intense interest, as we see HERE:
A majority of Americans are following both the controversy over the attack on the U.S. ...
May 17, 2013
5:21 p.m.
Ordinarily, I like to know what’s going on in the world. But I’m glad I didn’t know about THIS:
During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from th...
May 17, 2013
11:21 a.m.
The right-wing noise machine has strongly implied, and falsely so, that the Obama administration doctored government emails concerning the Benghazi tragedy.
In truth, however, it was the Republicans themselves who doctored the emails. And a gullible r...
May 17, 2013
11:21 a.m.
I’ve been thinking about Rick’s response to the notion that our first black president has gleefully presided over the lynching of a criminal suspect. What is Rick’s response? 99% like this! As if Facebook overrides the Constitution. And ...
May 17, 2013
11:21 a.m.
“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple … where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning … from the past and bridges to the future.” – Pearl Bailey
My kitchen, the room where...
May 17, 2013
11:21 a.m.
It’s probably safe to say that many Americans think the current “scandal” at the Internal Revenue Service is about who has to pay how much in taxes.
But that’s not the case, as Steven Rattner MAKES CLEAR:
One of the bigger iron...
