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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Semi-Singular Praise Of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA)

There are many aspects of California, which I strongly dislike: exorbitant state and local taxes, perennial devastating wildfires, the Democratic monopolist majority in Sacramento, drought, a proposed gasoline-powered car...

FRED FIRST: Nature Notes: Early May

Finally I am getting out a bit onto the trails before spring is fully gone...

BOB BROWN: “Teach Us to Number Our Days”

I was healthy and fit, a proponent of physical exercise, weighed myself daily with pleasing...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sanction Russia’s Shadow Fleet NOW

During the 2024 presidential campaign and going back to March 2023, President Trump repeatedly and...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Mother’s Day to Remember

Mother’s Day - remembering and celebrating our mothers, not because they are or were perfect,...

It’s Time to Take Some Facts for a Walk

Here are three data points that have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.  Nothing at all.  1. The Humane Society estimates that...

We Are Always Teaching

How well do you know your children?  Luckily, most parents would answer that question confidently with an assurance that they know their kids...

Faithful Waiting

A young couple learns that they are pregnant.  The first days upon making this discovery are filled with the waxing and waning sensations of...

What’s An Education For Anyway?

In the 1950s when I attended Mary Baldwin College religious diversity was obvious in our "Day Student Club."  My friends included two Roman...

One Subaru – Sunny Side Up

It was miserable, cold and wet. The wind made the umbrella in my hand a pathetic mockery of shelter from the storm. It would...

Darwin for Modernity

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. On 24 November 2010, the world celebrated the 151st anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin...