The world’s climate has been in flux since the creation of climate with the stabilization of atmosphere and emergence of oceans and continents over a billion years ago. Man devined the ability to exist in various climate eras, and with the retraction of the glaciers of the last ice age harnessed the power of climate to produce crops and conquer the Continue Reading
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
From Tesla to Today
The genius came from Central Europe and quietly ended, nearly penniless, in a small hotel room in New York. A genius the world has almost all but forgotten. Every day we use the fruits of his endeavors without a second thought. We run our microwaves, our Flat screen TVs and even use his inventions to fight our nation’s war Continue Reading
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MUSIC
Glenn Gould – What Genius Sounds Like
A casual fan of classical music often has a typical collection of greatest hits that they delve into when they are in the mood for a little introspective listening. The performances are often attached to movies, such as the musical interlude Hannibal Lector listens to for solace in jail in “Silence of the Lambs“, the Goldberg Variations – Aria, by Johann Sebastian Bach. Few Continue Reading
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ART
World Class Artistry, from a Wisconsin Artist
Illustration has been a driving force of artistic expression in human culture since the earliest identified images applied to cave walls by pre-literate man some 30,000 years ago in Lascaux, France. The explosion of public appreciation for this skill through the act of painting on a canvas as a form of expression of symbolism or beauty for its own Continue Reading
The Dangerous Season
For the United States, a nation battered and tired by a decade of conflict and two intractable wars, a period of retrenchment from world affairs has been pledged by the current administration. Unfortunately the world, as usual, is in no mood to cooperate. We have been entering for some time a dangerous season of instability and potential disaster driven Continue Reading
Dancing and Other Things I Can’t Do
I am enthralled with the idea of old fashioned dancing. The process for hundreds of years in western culture was a shared experience between a couple, classically man and woman, attracted to each other and stimulated to share a coordinated bonding to music – sounds good to me. I have been, however, a singular failure at the concept of social Continue Reading
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POLITICS
A Thief in the Night
One of the most disheartening aspects of current governments is their propensity to steal. The overwhelming urge to pilfer is born from another addiction, the insatiable appetite for growth. The classic resource for governmental action, the tax. has , secondary to this gluttonous appetite, required supplementation by the fee, the assessment, the service charge, the toll, the penalty, the tuition, the Continue Reading
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SPORT
Brett Favre – One More Time
We are about to enter the 2010 NFL football season and once again, as we have for the past seven years, the Brett Favre watch has begun. Since 2004, Mr. Favre has created tense off -season scenarios as to whether he would come back to play for “one more year”, and this year will be no different. The current NFL Continue Reading
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TRAVEL
The West is Jackson
A very special place on earth is Jackson, Wyoming. A little town of 8600 inhabitants sits in one of the most beautiful venues on earth and is definitely worth a trip to see and experience. The town is the gateway to some of the more spectacular natural formations on the American continent. Rising over thirteen thousand feet above the Continue Reading
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MUSIC
Dusty Springfield Revisited
Mary O’Brien, an british born singer better known as Dusty Springfield, created a new world of music in the 1960’s with soul inflected sensual music that resonates to this day. She managed to marry the intense internalization of emotions reflected in American soul music of the urban street and rural south with the cheerful, upbeat, and hip sound of the modern British band Continue Reading