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Side Man
Posted on November 5, 2009 | 8 CommentsThe sign said “Authorized Vehicles Only” beside the open gate at the top of the hill so I paused to consider whether that meant me or not when a guy...
Jumping Frog Politics
Posted on November 5, 2009 | 3 CommentsAmericans who check in on politics out of duty or interest must feel like the narrator in Mark Twain’s story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” The poor fellow...
How Stripping Supermodels Promote Climate Action
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 14 CommentsThis video was released as part of Bill McKibben’s global awareness-building exercise last week for 350.org, an organization promoting the idea that carbon emission levels above 350 parts per million...
Grit Power
Posted on November 3, 2009 | 9 CommentsReading Michael Pollan’s books, Omnivore’s Dilemma and Botany of Desire, makes me want to stop eating corn and all that involves corn. Which is just about everything other than vegetables,...
That Mona Lisa Strangeness in Your Smile
Posted on November 2, 2009 | 4 CommentsScientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. They say it has to do with which cells in the eye’s retina pick up the image. Depending on the...
Can Disney’s Davy Crockett Save America?
Posted on November 1, 2009 | 12 CommentsMy parents used to tell me that I could sing “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier” before I could talk. I don’t doubt it; I loved that show. Fess...
Nevermore
Posted on October 31, 2009 | 3 CommentsIt’s wildly inappropriate to pigeonhole Edgar Allan Poe in the horror genre. Still, it’s Halloween, and who better to spend time with than Poe? UT’s Harry Ransom Center, one of...
Halloween Candy
Posted on October 29, 2009 | 1 CommentI don’t know what to make of a new U.S. News online readers’ poll. Sarah Palin is running away from the field on the question of who will hand out...
Ayn Rand: “The Evel Knievel of leaping to conclusions”
Posted on October 28, 2009 | 6 CommentsYou probably know someone just now reading one of Ayn (rhymes with dine) Rand’s thick-as-a-brick books. Rand believed selfishness was the fundamental positive principle of human life. We are good...
Born on the Bayou
Posted on October 26, 2009 | 3 CommentsWe built forts in the bayou, but they were hardly necessary. Who would follow us down the woody bluff and into the wilds of the cypress and oak lined waterway...