I’d like to address my comments to one particular person this week. The rest of you are welcome to listen. I’d like to address my comments to former president George Bush. I don’t know if you’re listening Mr. Bush, or if you even surf the ‘net. I do know you have time on your hands. […]
Remember “Casablanca”? Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on that wet runway, he’s telling her to get on the plane, he’s telling her that the problems of two people don’t amount to a hill of beans… What does a hill of beans amount to? It was not a useful standard of measurement in the 1940s, and […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. In keeping with the season, I’d like to salute the Dow Chemical Corporation of Midland, Michigan. It can be argued that Dow is responsible for making millions of women aware of breast cancer, in the most direct way possible. In 1960, one out of 20 American women was diagnosed […]
A few months ago, I attended a discussion between environmentalists and journalists. The two sides were trading impressions of each other in a Seattle microbrewery. One of the themes sounded by the journalists was that too often, environmentalists cry “the sky is falling” when in fact, it is not. Some of the journalists allowed that […]
Once, and only once, have I ever dined on Alaskan Red King crab. It was long ago, in South Carolina, and someone else was paying for my meal. But I remember it well – cracking open the legs, sliding the firm flesh into the tubs of melted butter. I violated one of the seven deadly […]
Ambulance at Amchitka
Last week, Greenpeace announced some of its activists had done something no one has ever done before. They visited a nuclear test site without permission from the country that conducted the tests. That meant no government officials peering over their shoulders, steering them toward this or away from that. The Greenpeace activists visited the Cannikin […]