It started like any other sunday morning. I was sitting at the breakfast bar, with my laptop and coffee in front of me, leisurely reading articles and following links over hills and down dales, roaming the web super highway.
I … Read more...
Should CVS Dump Junk Food And Alcohol Next?
When CVS announced its plan to stop selling all tobacco products at it’s 7,600 stores by October 1, 2014 and walk away from 2 billion in tobacco related business, the media immediately began to speculate whether other major drug store … Read more...
For The Joy Of Animals: Gambolling Cows
Thoughts of spring usually bring to mind sunshine and rain; budding trees and daffodils; baby animals and -- gambolling cows? Read More...
Eating Like A Piglet
We’ve always been told “eating like a pig” was bad…
But who knew eating like a piglet could be so darn cute!
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There is just something seriously adorable about a baby pig.
I don’t know if it is … Read more...
The Wisdom of Anna
History is all around us and made daily in thousands, if not millions of ways. So it may seem odd to think of something so common as being too precious to lose, but history is a record of the interconnecting … Read more...
New In 2011 — Real Change Or More PR?
With the New Year only days away, you can smell the change is in the air. Or, is that just more PR?
All natural, but the process
Let the change begin with snack foods. Well maybe not. Apparently we consumers … Read more...
BP and NOAA — Dispellers of Myths, Educators of School Children?
It is truly a perverse world we are living in when BP, with the help of our government, is allowed to present itself as a truth teller and a dispeller of myths. But it gets downright obscene, when our government … Read more...
From BP To You, With Love
Don’t you just love presents? Especially ones that keep on giving?
Well, here’s a big one from BP. Given with LOVE, I’m sure. And it’s a gift that will keep on giving for many years to come.
If you think … Read more...
About Those Beaches And That Seafood…
BP announced on Friday that it is time to scale back clean up and focus on restoration. The Fed on Thursday expanded its open fishery areas. States are touting reopened beaches and fisheries. Ed Overton, a professor … Read more...
Dear Commander-in-Chief, The Oil Spill Is Winning!
… Read more...Dear Commander-in-Chief: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! It is day 81. The oil invasion is spreading. We will soon be surrounded by deadly water on two sides! Our food supplies are tainted. Our morale is low. Our information unreliable. Our front lines
The Oil Isn’t Just a Perception Problem
On the surface it may look like BP and the Obama administration are having some bad oil days. Rust-colored oil that fouled Louisiana’s ecologically sensitive marshes washed ashore on barrier islands off Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday.
The oil … Read more...
More Oil, The Gulf Stream, Liability Caps and Environmental Exceptions
Have we created The Perfect Oil Storm?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m an optimist by nature and a firm believer that ingenuity and determination can overcome almost any thing.
While my environmental heart is broken, as someone geeky enough to … Read more...
On FDR’s New Deal: The American People Sound Off
Back in 2008 & 2009 there were headlines, numbers, and analysis being thrown at FDR’s New Deal almost daily. Obama Gives Us the Same Old New Deal. And, How Government Prolonged the Depression. Or, Stimulus: Can it work … Read more...
Celebrating a Nurturing Nature
Okay. When I think about it, it makes sense. They share the same habitat, so it why not be companionable about it. Still, I’ve never heard of a duck that feeds one fish, let alone multiple hungry, bigger than the … Read more...