Fracking

Virginia seems to be the first of several states to ban the use of Fracking, which is a gas extraction method involving the forced cracking and fracturing of rock substrata.  Environmental groups have been saying for years that Fracking led to contamination of ground water and a possible link to seismic disruptions.  In the award [...]

The Great Outdoors

So, as I said a few posts ago, I’ve been thinking about fishing, having bought a new rod and reel.  With the weather getting warmer, I’ve been looking forward to using my flexible time to hit the road and maybe go up to my favorite Crown Land site to do some fishing. I figured that [...]

Lead in the Environment

After retiring almost two years ago several people have told me that I need to either take up golf or fishing, …both being a good excuse for doing relatively nothing.  Since it became obvious many years ago how much I suck at golf, that left fishing.  So last week I outfitted myself with a new [...]

PIG GENOCIDE

If you are a small, family farm, pig raiser in Michigan it will be hard for you to accept any government party claims which assert that the U.S. is the land of the free.  In a country that constantly praises itself for respecting individual rights and small government, April 1st will see a small army [...]

A Language Older Than Words

Several years ago, the last time I was in Moab, Utah, I visited the renowned Back of Beyond Bookstore and picked up a volume by Derrick Jensen called A Language Older Than Words.  When I got home it got put on the bookshelf where it’s sat until a few days ago when something prompted me [...]

Mysterious Disease Hits New York High School

The story is about 10 days old now, but little has been added to the original information.  I hope this is not one of those stories that fades away without follow up.  Over the past three months at LeRoy High School in New York State, a strange story has unfolded involving 15 high school girls [...]

The Vegetarian Myth

A very different view of vegetarian and vegan values and motives from Lierre Keith who was a vegetarian for over twenty years.  Looking at the arguments about personal health and destructive agriculture, she comes to the conclusion that vegetarianism is not what it pretends to be.  I’m not sure about all her facts, but she [...]

A Few Words On Conspiracy Theories & THRIVE

A few weeks ago when I put up a post about my favorite web sites, I mentioned a new site that I’d just found and which looked very interesting.  I said I’d get back to you on it, so… THRIVE, is a website up up by Foster Gamble (of the famous Proctor and Gamble family).  [...]

Vegetarianism and Bunny Stew

I guess that I’m neither pro or con vegetarianism.  I’m very conscious of two restrictions that vegetarians have to be aware of.  The first is that some complex proteins are not easily gotten through strictly vegan diets and the hard core vegetarian has to have a knowledge of nutrition in order to have a complete [...]

Mexican Reality TV

So you’d think that a popular Mexican reality TV show would be about drug cartels or taco making or something like that. “Initiative Mexico” is going into its second successful season.  It is a reality show that spotlights Mexican activists trying to improve their communities or country.  Contestants include people seeking social justice or trying [...]

An Unlikely Phophet

Tiny Tim was a novelty performer in the mid 60′s, most well known for his falsetto rendition of “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”.  At the time, nobody really knew what to make of him and his ukulele.  I haven’t seen this clip in almost 40 years and, for obvious reasons, it didn’t stick in my mind.  [...]

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