January 21, 2010 RSS feed / Features

It’s time to do our part: Reflections on Copenhagen

Weeks after returning from the Copenhagen climate talks, I continue to think about what the outcome means for our future. While there, the mood swung dramatically from hope to despair. More...

Keeping In Touch

The Second Annual Spectacular Flyover

When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such an one can be again. More...

Silly Social Scenes

“As to his general character, it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists.” Thomas Babington Macaulay

MISS LOBOTOMY VISITS MOUNTPECULIAR – As Constant Readers will recall from last week’s Column (those who didn’t sleep through it, that is), Your Miss Lobotomy was sent on a commercial mission to the twin counter-cultural communities More...

Thoughts of an Average Joe

Need Directions? ? Get Lost

It’s hard to get good directions. Last October, I was upcountry and asked a local where I might find some partridges (Yeah, I know there are no partridges up there). More...

Kids Korner

MR. BROWN had to go to his camp at Pine Tree Valley, which is in the midst of the mountains in California. His men were cutting down the giant trees, and piling them in readiness for the Spring freshet, or floods of the river, when the snows melted. More...