Miss Virginia Smith -- Smitty -- on my back watching the deer. Circa 1996. I'm 65 years old and (knock-wood) in good health. I suspe...

grifter : someone who cheats others out of money. Grifters are also known as chiselers, defrauders, gougers, scammers, swindlers, and ...

It seems to me that people have only a few choices in in response to the research on climate change. We have to believe it, disbelieve it, o...

Thanks to A.E. for sending me this flash from the past.

About a month ago I wrote about trying to get locally-based NPR host, Anne Strainchamps (that's her on the right in the picture abov...

Note: Juan Carlos Marvizon, mentioned below, hid his blog from the public after I posted this essay. I guess even he recognizes that the ave...

The recent public relations scheme to make the labs more transparent in order to make the public believe that hurting and killing animals in...

Evolution has fitted us with the propensity to believe what we are told, to do as we are ordered, and to march behind those we take to be ou...

Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there [sic] parents once they cross the Border into ...