Dec 31, 2014See La PazI guess an illustration of the Zeitgeist is that now a popular feature in the New York Times is their weekly “36 Hour” travel feature....
Dec 31, 2014Scott Frost at Paradise BilliardsRecently I was at a birthday party for a friend’s wife at a cozy tavern along the shore of Lake Washington just north of Seattle. The...
Dec 31, 2014“Respect Few, Fear None.”Personally, I love government. I love my Social Security checks, Medicare, my Golden Age Pass; and I love the government agencies which...
Dec 31, 2014Philosophy of TeachingMany years ago, when I took my little girls to see Namu, The Killer Whale at Sea World, Namu was having a bad day and refused to do the...
Dec 31, 2014Our Most Valuable Natural ResourceGenerally, most people agree that, “You get what you pay for.” And, usually it is true. So, assuming most of us subscribe to this bit of...
Dec 31, 2014My beliefI have been an atheist as long as I can remember. My parents took me to a Unitarian church when I was very little. Later, when we were...
Dec 31, 2014FEMA and KATRINAI cannot understand all the fuss about the government’s tepid response to Hurricane Katrina. To be perfectly honest, all this carping is...