Mark Bittman, whose “Minalmist” cooking show on PBS I have often cribbed ideas from, has a piece on the Op/Ed page of today’s NY Times. It doesn’t appear that he … [Keep reading >>]
Somehow I missed this modest last paragraph on Bob Herbert’s March 24 column at the NY Times:
This is my last column for The New York Times after an exhilarating, nearly … [Keep reading >>]
Sad news for Marin County and all of us who knew Charles McGlashen.
Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan died of an apparent heart attack Sunday after a two-day ski outing at … [Keep reading >>]
From politicusa:
The Wisconsin GOP, already famous for bully-boy Stormtrooper tactics and disregard of decency has gone after a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor, William Cronon, who specializes in history, geography and … [Keep reading >>]
The Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signalled thatTurkey is ready to act as a mediator to broker an early ceasefire inLibya, as he warned that a drawn-out conflict … [Keep reading >>]
Construction workers aren’t seeing this yet but jobs are being added in California.
A hiring surge led by California’s hallmark industries — high tech, movies and tourism — generated nearly 100,000 … [Keep reading >>]
… half a million people descended on central London for the biggest protest the … [Keep reading >>]
Very useful article in the Sunday SF Chronicle Home and Garden about measuring budding time of local trees, as a measure of increasing temperatures. Everything from first robin to first … [Keep reading >>]
In another cruel joke by the gods, the only country in the world to suffer under atomic weapons now appears to be suffering under atoms intended for well being. Though … [Keep reading >>]
The US isn’t alone in its drawing up the pale to exclude those not like us. In fact it’s a pretty near universal emotion. When emotions get high pull back … [Keep reading >>]
In a country as divided as ours, especially under the pressure of approaching climate calamity, it is easy for myths to grow about the places we aren’t and the beliefs we don’t … [Keep reading >>]
