Jack Burns Lives!

Commentary, ideas and miscellany in the spirit of Edward Abbey

Archive for May, 2006

The Show Must Go On

While some Americans may be reducing their travel this summer due to gas prices, make no mistake, America is still a nation on the move. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s David Green, even if fuel prices doubled, we’d only see approximately a five percent decrease in demand, and based on current traffic levels, it [...]

It Doesn’t Fit

Reading Jeffers in the garden, I’m surrounded by Brown trasher, American robin, Red-bellied woodpecker, Carolina chickadee, Bluejay, Eastern chimpmunk, Eastern Gray squirrel, herbs, peppers, tomatoes and towering trees.
A Brown thrasher feeds her young.
Flying above me is an iron bird. It doesn’t fit.
Then again, so few things made by man fit.