Archive for March, 2010
Berry Go Round reminder
The next edition of Berry Go Round will be up here next week. I can accept submissions through the end of the day Saturday if you haven’t sent me your botanically inclined posts yet.
A Poem
Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and […]
Biofuels
I think biofuels are a good idea and something that could help us a great deal in the future. But right now, I think we’re doing it wrong. For example, corn ethanol subsidies are discouraging better biofuel alternatives at very high cost to taxpayers. It’s also making food more expensive, which is devastating in poorer […]
Atrazine
Atrazine is a common herbicide that’s contaminated a great deal of our water. In frogs, teeny tiny amounts of this stuff have very dramatic effects – males having babies dramatic. (via NRDC Switchboard) You’ve got to wonder what sort of effects this has on humans.
The serious flaws of Christian fundamentalism & its personal God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Yahweh began as a highly personalized deity with passionate human likes and dislikes. Later he became a symbol of transcendence, whose thoughts were not our thoughts and whose ways soared above our own as the heavens tower above the earth. The […]
Puttin’ on the Ritz
I want to see this at the next drag show I go to.
What I’ve Noticed
Poorly designed regulations contribute to sprawl, making walkable neighborhoods expensive or even illegal. Contrary to popular conception, marriage is good for men and bad for women. Nixon would have been hilarious if he hadn’t been president. Not being able to predict when I’m going to have a migraine is a serious problem. Advice for bossy […]