Virga
My wife and I were driving back from Tetonia the other day and I asked her what was the term for rain that never reaches the earth? “ Virga,” she replied, looking toward the Tetons and pointing. There...
View ArticleReasoning with the Reachable
I've written several op eds and letters to our local paper trying to sway people who I believe might be sitting on the fence politically. I live in Idaho which is very conservative. I try and walk a...
View Articlemortgage payment strike
I've been trying to figure out how to be part of an effective protest that would have a real impact. I put this out as an idea and ask for input on whether it might be a feasible plan. I have a great...
View ArticleLove Overcomes Division
I sent the letter posted after the squiggle below to our local paper. I live in Idaho and am always looking for ways to reach out to and communicate with the conservatives here. Some are too extreme...
View Articlemanchurian candidate
Just a thought about the Romney candidacy. It has been shown over and over again that he, essentially, has no conviction other than wanting to be president. Whenever anything that might be a little...
View Articlekeeping the faith
The debate was disappointing. I had been feeling so positive that Obama would make it for sure. I liked that feeling of inevitability that I had gotten used to poll after poll. At last we would get...
View ArticleWake Up & Look Behind the Curtain
I've written several op eds and letters to our local paper trying to sway people who I believe might be sitting on the fence politically. I live in Idaho which is very conservative. I try to walk a...
View ArticleIf your god kills little children
If your god kills little children because of a lack of prayer in schools then keep that little, worthless egocentric deity away from me. Any person who feels an iota of spirituality would not use the...
View ArticlePetty, Mean, and Stupid
This is another in a series of op-eds I write for publication in the local paper. My efforts are to speak to the reachable and not argue with the extremist.
View ArticleDazed and Confused in the U.S. Economy: the Saga of the Sequester
From the land of the absurd known as the United States.
View ArticleEducation in Teton County, Id and the U.S.
Another in my series of op-eds to the local paper that attempt to reason with the reachable.
View ArticleCan we learn?
We are to blame. Democratic ideals have been compromised for the last thirty years. A sell out to moneyed interests and a betrayal of the working class have a created a voter base in which many members...
View ArticleReally want to say FU to Trump & Company? Make Keith Ellison head of the DNC
He’s black, Muslim, and progressive. Things Trump hates and we love. Sign the petition at MoveOn and support his bid for Chair of the Democratic National Committee.
View ArticleThe Great Escape in Reverse
I haven’t seen a diary on this before. I just saw a news story on NEWSY about a group of almost 400 migrants detained by the CPB (Customs and Border Patrol) in Arizona on Jan. 14. Apparently many of...
View ArticleResponse to a Right Winger
I’ve gone to Breitbart a number of times and am both repulsed and intrigued by the articles and commenters. I find arguing with commenters over there forces me to focus on my positions in my own head...
View Article"So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here." -- Phil Ochs
I wrote the following Letter to the Editor yesterday and sent it to three different Idaho newspapers. The idea to put it up in a diary came as I read the APR this morning and came to Andrea Miller’s...
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