Jack Burns Lives!

Now, would you rather see her on your daily commute or this?
This post is about oil. Yes, another one. I simply can’t stop myself.
And, I hate to say I told you so, but I will. Can’t resist that either. As Abbey said, “some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to [...]

photo: time.com
Yesterday was one of those picture perfect days blessed with sunny skies, cool morning temps, blossoming trees and flowers, little critters busy gathering food their nests, fresh fruit for breakfast and even a decent morning commute.
I loaded the panniers on my trusty steed and sailed off into the world of pavement, cars and trucks [...]

The above photo was sent to me by my good friend and fellow enviro-meddler Hayduke from the Left Coast Bureau in Northern California. I don’t know who took it, but it clearly shows the the present (soon to become the past) and the future.
The present is the price of petrol, now over $4.00 per gallon [...]

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”-John Lennon
Here, in the middle of a busting at the seams metropolitan area of one million humans, scurrying around from their homes to their offices and back to their homes like wealth motivated little rodents, you often find other life forms. But you have to [...]

This is madness.
The Madness of King George continues, as this week his administration announced plans to use waivers to continue with the Mexican border fence project. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, ignoring more reasonable options, decides to lie to the American people and claims he has no option but to build the fence. His logic? [...]

Sounds like my kind of place, and also a dream of mine for a long, long time. Wouldn’t it be nice to see small, locally owned bookstores really make a comeback all across the country? You see ‘em a lot on the West coast. Fayetteville, Arkansas has a good one. Moab has one of the [...]