Jack Burns Lives!

Back to my favorite place, Ridgway, Colorado. I simply can’t stand it any longer. The call of the mountains and the forest is too strong.
Right now, Ridgway looks a lot different from the above photo. It’s cold and snowy, with nighttime temps in the teens, daytime highs in the low 50’s. You can see what [...]

I’ve got bad news for people that expect substantive, even minor, changes after the Democrats win the White House.
As we often say in the South, it ain’t happening.
Dennis Kucinich, The Party’s lone voice in the wilderness, is just that. Alone. The rest of the candidates are so pathetically robotic and programmable it’s sad. They’ll say [...]

The New York Times recently reported that a record number of “nuisance” bears were killed in Colorado this year, according to the report, because of drought and a late spring freeze that affecting food supplies.
The real issue is human encroachment into bear habitat. The bears could roam further for their natural food supply (as they’ve [...]

This story is truly beyond belief. And perhaps the most amazing aspect is why there’s no organized opposition to it.
While increasing areas of the world are suffering from drought and shrinking aquifers, Arizona is planning a massive water park. Only Las Vegas is more brash.
It’s another case of a nut job, selfish developer, willing to [...]

Warm coffee and a fresh pastry from our French bakery, La Baguette, for breakfast. Nice start to the day. Outside it’s cold, as it should be in November, and the morning sun is gradually illuminating the brilliant yellow, gold and brown of the oaks and maples that surround the house.
I’m the first one up, [...]

Another year passed. One down, who knows how many more to go.
I thought about this a lot last night and decided to get busy with some things I hope to accomplish before I become nourishment for the area flora and fauna. At some point today, I’ll be making that list, checking it twice and [...]

Remember that ridiculous video of John Ashcroft singing a song he wrote, “Let The Eagle Soar?” Well, the eagle is soaring high for John right now.
Okay, pious Christians, here’s one of your boys. One you wholeheartedly supported back in those early vainglorious days of Enduring Freedom. Rooting terrorists out of their snake holes. Back when [...]

“Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.” -Edward Abbey
The New York Times reported yesterday that Goldman Sachs Chief Executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein is having a great year. While much of the nation finds itself in a festering and widening credit and mortgage crisis, Blankfein should make around $65 [...]

“He was now in a gray and barren region of saltbush, blackbrush, cactus and little else. There were no trees, not even the scrubbiest of junipers, nothing but the knee-high brush, the dusty desert, the pale glaring stone which made his squinting eyes burn and ache. Even here, however, were signs of animal life: snakes, [...]

Slept like a baby last night, although I don’t really know why people say that. Babies don’t always sleep so soundly, you know. Caroline, for example, had colic, and could rise at any point screaming bloody murder. Day or night.
I discovered three management techniques to quiet her. One, a ride in our brown, ‘76 Celica. [...]