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BOB BROWN: What is Real?

Often, an old song plays in my mind. I cannot identify the situations that bring lyrics and melodies into my awareness. Somehow, I am reassured and comforted by them. Say...

FRED FIRST: Spiders I Have Worn

I see now how often what I chose to write about in my haphazard weekly...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Does Putin Consider Ukraine Russian Territory? If So, U.S. Negotiations Are In Trouble

President Putin, aka Vladimir the Terrible, is a second-world money-mongering autocrat, who commands the largest...

ANDY PITZER: Not-So-Trivial Geography

The absence of geography courses in American elementary and secondary school curriculums these days is...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest On July 4th Is An Ode To Gluttony

Joey Chestnut, 41, who is 6’1”, surprisingly only 230 pounds, and a personification of gluttony, won...

The Hidden River Bed Of O’Hain

I am an avid reader of history; an aficionado, though not a student or teacher. But I recently came upon a story I had...

It’s Time to Welcome Hummingbirds—Properly!

Along with Spring and Summer comes Ruby-throated hummingbirds. If you have not yet put up a feeder to attract these tiny birds, it’s not...

Lessons Not Learned

One of the saddest facts of history is that the lessons it offers are rarely used in planning the future. When injustices result in...

About War & Peace

George Bush and Dick Cheney have been condemned as warmongers. The conflict in Iraq was ignited for two reasons. Retribution for the 9/11 death...

Smart from the Start

During the last week of May, I attended the Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress in México City. With thousands of delegates from Latin America,...

CSI Bluebird

It’s one thing to have the proper setting for bluebird nesting but quite another to successfully raise a brood. Nature is not the kind...