Jack Burns Lives!

So, Georgie isn’t going to “grow old” on his Texas ranch after all. Alternet and other media outlets have reported that he and the misses are going to settle down in a rich, white folks enclave that until 2000 was apparently for “whites only.”
Rumor has it Bush and The First Lady prepared for Obama’s White [...]

So not only are the juncos absent, but so are several other species. I’ve seen very few Northern Cardinal, sparrows, Robin or Red-bellied woodpeckers, species normally in abundance year round.
First it was the frogs and toads. Then the honeybees. Now the birds.
I realize my home is just one small area and that I’d [...]

“Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.”-Edward Abbey
I think we all realize that George Bush, the forty-third selected President of the United States, was never really in control.
And neither were we. Haven’t been from day one, at least as far as I can tell.
The torch [...]

Mid-December and not a single sighting of a Dark-eyed junco, a regular winter visitor from the north. I’ve usually seen a few scouts by now, and by Christmas, they’re an abundant back yard species.
Oddly, there’s not a report on the Tennessee bird list for my area in December.
I hope the junco’s aren’t going [...]

Ever since I was a wee lad running for my life on the mean streets of North Memphis, I’ve fantasized about living in other places. My dreams have run the gamut, California, Mexico, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida, The Lake District and to my latest interest, southwest Texas, just a bit above Big Bend. 
Never really thought [...]

The Gravy Train To Nowhere
“While shoring up infrastructure is good, many projects remain sketchy for economic, policy, and environmental reasons. Despite the immediate economic boost, we might be better off if some projects were never built, and we’re certainly being rushed toward policies on infrastructure (like tolling and congestion pricing, even privatization) that carry with [...]