This year marks the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. I know that sounds premature, but when the current calendar was devised, it was off by four years.
Two millennia later, how fares the spirit of Christmas? Each year, in the weeks before Christmas, I have that uneasy Charlie-Brown, what’s-this-all-about feeling. [...]

If you listen to these comments each week, I’m going to assume you’re a serious consumer of news and if you are, I’m going to assume you heard last week that the federal government is offering Texan Charles Hurwitz $300 million in public assets in exchange for 7,500 acres of old-growth forest in northern California.
The [...]

Today is Thanksgiving and we here at WebActive are celebrating by playing a tape of something recorded a few days ago, because in that fine American tradition, we’re not working on a holiday.
This year, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving with the official Thanksgiving song, which many people may think is “over the river and through the woods,” [...]

I’m traveling this week, calling in from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I’m here to talk about fish, or more accurately, the lack of fish. Fish or no fish? Gloucester is a prototypical American fishing community. It’s on Cape Ann, north of Boston. Ethnic neighborhoods of clapboard houses end at the water’s edge, [...]