If you have to ask which bellicose Senator said “we are all Ukrainians”, you will have to do several hours of penance, writing “This is good news for John McCain” on the blackboard over and over again. Why in the name of George Washington, James Madison, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson the media keeps going …
Link to the video: How Wolves Changed An Entire Ecosystem. The reintroduction of wolves changed many many things in Yellowstone, as the video shows. Yet the National Fish and Wildlife Service wants to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species list. They initially put the new rule up for public comment last year and from …
The woman who led the charge to get that anti-gay law passed in Arizona had this to say after Governor Brewer vetoed it: “Opponents were desperate to distort this bill rather than debate the merits. Essentially, they succeeded in getting a veto of a bill that does not even exist” Er, madam, I don’t want …
NBC News has a backgrounder. It’s trickier than I thought. I was under the impression that it was the middle class and the wealthy who were as angry with the new President as they had been toward Chavez, but the students are joining in too. It’s not hard to figure out why: Venezuelan society is …
When we moved to Honolulu in the ’70s there was so much building going on that there was a running joke in the city that the state bird was the crane. Growth has been stop-and-go since then, but I was up on the 13th floor of Bishop Square downtown today with a great view looking …
It’s a little hard to believe, but the US had only three athletes who won multiple medals at Sochi 2014. Usually there are several short-track and long-track speed skaters with multiple gold, silver or bronze finishes, but not this time. Nope, the three who accomplished it are Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the ice dancers …
We’re set in our ways out here. Every morning I give Mom a plate that looks like this: Clementines and some form of pastry (in this case a slice of something Safeway calls a pudding ring: typically a cake laced with blueberry or lemon or raspberry). From Events Me? I have one of these: From …
Back in 1987 then-Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona unilaterally canceled the state holiday meant to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later the state’s citizens voted down a referendum establishing an MLK Jr. holiday. As a result, the state faced an economic boycott, culminating in the National Football League removing its previously-scheduled Super Bowl …
Well hell. Leading 2 – 0 with 3:26 left in the game, the American women gave up two goals to send the game into overtime and then gave up the game-winner eight minutes into OT to lose the gold medal game to Canada. That’s unpleasant. The two teams are unquestionably the best in women’s hockey; …
Half the economic activity in the country takes place in a dozen or so cities, yet our friends in the Republican party always claim “Real America” is out there in the middle of the country among the cornfields. The worst of it is, places like Wyoming have the same votes in the Senate as California, …