The grapes really came in this year. They’re ripe now; reminding me that nature has its own schedule, regardless of what I else I think I have to do.
So I was out early this morning, cutting clusters, hoping to get some juice pressed before the day’s (previously scheduled) activities began. The sun was [...]
Now that BP’s jury-rigged contraption to contain its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spew has failed, the company’s only resort is to continue pumping massive amounts of dispersant into the water near the wellhead, in an attempt to – what exactly?
The dispersant goes by the trade name “Corexit.” It’s supposed to be a pun [...]
This item popped up, briefly, on the front page of the Washington Post’s web site yesterday afternoon. By this morning it was on page A4 of the print edition. I found it using the search function.
If you haven’t clicked the link above, it will take you to a story about the United Nations [...]
I’m on vacation on Cape Cod this week, the first relaxed visit I’ve had here in 35 years. My cell phone died Monday and I scoured the web looking for a store where I could replace it. The only one on the cape is in Hyannis, so I got in the car this [...]
Like many others, I think the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer colloquy on The Daily Show was a great, straightforward explication of some of the issues that have caused the recent financial havoc in the financial markets and more important, how the screaming heads on tee vee threw fuel (by which I mean, our retirement funds) on [...]
Maybe it’s like dancing, I don’t know. I’m not very good at that either.
Justin, my web guru (whose Green Galoshes is linked down there to the left), sat me a down over a cup of coffee last fall and tried, as he periodically does, to help me improve this page.
He told me to add [...]
I guess I owe a 24 years-belated apology to Walter Mondale.
As it transpires, it wasn’t all his fault he got blown out by Ronald Reagan in 1984. Part of the problem was his boneheaded, run off at the mouth vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.
It only took 48 hours and multiple, abrasive appearances on national [...]
