A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
As with most things online, change is the only constant. You can expect the site to continue to morph and change as we get used to our new skin and as we reflect the feedback we get from our audience.
Please feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and suggestion with us. We care what you think.
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The Dog Canyon PackThe Dog Canyon Pack
- Tom Block
- Rita Nakashima Brock
- Joe Brewer
- Hayden Childs
- Christine Cox
- Cyndi Hughes
- Dr. Gregory Jackson
- Mary Lowry
- James C. Moore
- Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton
- Turk Pipkin
- Reba Saxon
- Glenn W. Smith
- Genevieve Van Cleve
- Joe Cutbirth
- George Lakoff
- Dave Grossman
- Derek Carroll
- Catherine Avril Morris
- Steve Birmingham
- Keesha Davis
- Dawn Erin
- Dorothy Harrigan
Economy Archive
Desperados Waiting for a Train
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on August 10, 2010 | 6 CommentsOh my mama told me ‘Cause she say she learned the hard way She say she wanna spare the children She say don’t give or sell your soul away ‘Cause all that you have is your soul So don’t be tempted by the shiny apple...
Not Getting Much out of Your Networking? Maybe Your Expectations are Too High.
By Keesha Davis | Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsAaahhh networking. The schmooze fest. Some people love it, other people hate it. Generally speaking, I tend to think that I would prefer to interface with a computer monitor or at least with a human on the other side of my camera over the excruciating...
Evangeline, the Oil Spill and Highway 61
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 14, 2010 | 4 CommentsI was 18, skinny, out of money and in New Orleans for the first time after some Appalachian adventures and a visit to Nixon’s D.C. I faked a cocky walk into a French Quarter piano bar and stayed until closing time when the brunette singer...
An Upside-Down Political Equation
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 13, 2010 | 2 CommentsAmerica — and the rest of the world, really — is living with this political equation: Our collective spending, guided by government, is needed to create jobs and stimulate a global economy still in recession. But political rhetoric is turning to spending cuts and deficit...
Hey Great Britain, It’s About Lives, Not Politics
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 11, 2010 | 1 CommentSo, a British company all but destroys the U.S. Gulf Coast, threatening the lives and livelihoods of many and killing ocean wildlife, and the Brits are worried about their dividends? You might call it the British Callous Upper Lip. Here’s how some Brits put it...
The Oil Spill and Political Paralysis
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe debate surrounding the tragic British Petroleum Gulf rig explosion and economy-wrecking oil spill has already spun off into an ideological wrestling match that’s got nothing to do with protecting us and everything to do with protecting wealth and the will-to-power. Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
By James C. Moore | Posted on May 4, 2010 | 3 CommentsWe might be powerless. The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop the tragedy. Chances are quite good we have no true sense of the dire nature...
British Petroleum’s Hands
By Scott Braddock | Posted on May 3, 2010 | 3 CommentsWhen I was a young boy growing up in Wharton County, my family would once a year drive to Matagorda Bay and buy shrimp off the boats. We’d take them back to our family farm, clean them, eat some that night and freeze the rest. ...The Myth of Adam (Smith)
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 3, 2010 | 3 CommentsRichard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchins, Sam Harris and their clubby ilk love to ramble on about destructive, unreasoned religious beliefs that enchain humanity in a continued dark age. It’s a mistake to blame human wonder at the mystery of it all rather than the blowhards of...