“Most Americans, whatever our adversities, historically have been luckier than many others, and the luckiest of us include the most fervent supporters of the belief that success or failure depends wholly on the individual.” James McConkey, What Kind of Father am I
This of course is the bedrock of Rush Limbaugh style conservatism, a movement [...]

Amidst this blizzard of nostalgia, I’m thinking, how sad for Tim Russert’s friends and especially, his family, but don’t we as a society have more important things to mourn than a man who entertained us by interviewing and moderating discussions among politicians?
Sure, he was likable and intelligent, though perhaps more in comparison to [...]

Two stories ran early this morning. At Yahoo posted an AP report that the IEI (Int’l Energy Association) concluded it would take 45 trillion dollars (or more than 3 times the size of the U.S. economy) to avert a climate crises by 2050.
This report virtually disappeared in favor of news [...]

“The twentieth century opened on a world that was home to little more than a billion people and closed on a world of 6 billion, and every one of those 6 billion is using on average four times as much energy as their forefathers did 100 years before. This helps account for the fact [...]

From beneath the mist
I see a yellow candle
by the bed flicker.
.
A voice whispers
forget about accounting
for what is and just be.
.
Everything I wished for once
disappeared in the night
like a giant freighter
down a river of longing
toward the horizon.
.
All that remains is the story
of a thousand departures.
Each one leaves its residue
on the inside of my skin.