Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: 13.1 Miles in National Parks!
Two of my favorite things in life are running and appreciating national parks. My idea of heaven? Running in a national park, as a fundraiser for my local school, with spring wildflowers blooming...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? Salad! Death By Chocolate Dessert!
What do you make when you have ten minutes? when you want to celebrate the beauty of spring? when you want to eat healthy? when you must avoid all leavening for the next eight days? when you're trying...
View ArticlePeep show! Wanna see pix of hot, cute, naked chicks?
Introducing:ValkyrieMedeaand Irene!
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: "Wanna see where Gram Parsons fried?"
The primary industry of the California desert is weirdness. This area generates more per-capita weirdness than anywhere else in America, beginning with the Joshua tree. (Of course, it helps that...
View ArticleExcuse me, can I please have my teabag back?
I'm a tea drinker. I have been, by choice, for years and years. I don't like coffee. I'll drink coffee once every week or two, either if I've had a horrible night or it's my only caffeinated choice,...
View ArticlePeep Show! Chicks with Cute Tails! Pix! Week Two!
My backyard chicks are growing up! If Easter hasn't inspired you to get your own chicks, these pix will!
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: 40 Frogs in his Pants!
Several years ago, I decided that Mother's Day is for hiking, on the theory that my then-whiny kids would be least likely to moan and whine on that day; other mothers might lounge around with breakfast...
View ArticleGood news for Alaskan polar bears: Bush drilling lease voided
A federal appellate court has just voided a Bush-era drill-baby-drill oil lease in Alaska for failing to consider the environmental impact to marine life. This is very good news for the polar bears,...
View ArticleWhat's for Dinner? Pizza! Baseball! Bonus Teabag Recipe!
I make pizza when it's hot outdoors. The time involved is also roughly equal to watching a major league baseball game. Just as a good baseball game comes down to, at its most basic, a ball, a bat,...
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Mt Hood Gets Stimulated 3x!
What good does it do to spend federal money in particular places? Let's explore the impact of federal spending in one awesome place, Mount Hood, just above the Columbia River, an hour or so east of...
View ArticleAction alert? Proposed federal insurance czar will hurt consumers
The AP is reporting that large property insurers might finally get what they've been wet-dreaming about for years: one set of federal regulations rather than the current patchwork of 50 states'...
View ArticleJunior Statespeople of America Report: The Kids Are All Right!
"Democracy is not a spectator sport!" Neither is being asked to chaperone 24 high school kids on 24 hours' notice to a convention of 1200 aspiring politicans. Reporting from the Junior Statesmen...
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Thoughts on a Hotel Treadmill
This past weekend I was stuck in a hotel and had to use the treadmill to get a workout. I hate treadmills! This treadmill is a state of the art Precor. I still hate treadmills! It even has its own...
View ArticlePeep Show: Chicks Discover Grass!
They grow up so fast! One day they're just innocent little newborn girls, so small you can hold them in your hand, and not very much later they're running around in a fast crowd all crazy because...
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: 50 Miles with Great Vigah!
Ever tried a Kennedy Walk? Can you hike 50 miles in one day? It's a great challenge for a Democratic activist: honor one of our great Presidents while knowing that you're in prime physical marching...
View ArticleBREAKING -- Obama's Not Changing Bush's Polar Bear Rule.
I am ill. I donated, fought for, and voted for Obama because I thought he could repeal all the stupid pigheaded wrong decisions of the Bush Administration, most especially on global warming. Now the...
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Yosemite's Secrets, UPDATED to add gun news
So you want to know the secrets of this park? You're planning a trip this summer to camp in Yosemite Valley*? You want to see the prettiest waterfalls**? You're planning to drive to your campsite,...
View ArticleContract with California, 2010: in case we're not FUBAR yet!
Yesterday I was polled by a research center on behalf of a group that may call itself the Contract with California (shades of Newt Gingrich!). A group with sufficient money to commission a poll is...
View ArticleHealthy Minds, Healthy Bodies: Fuss Re Oil Leases at Arches NP?
Arches National Park and its environs has been generating a lot of news lately. In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher sabotaged the Bush administration's midnight auctions of oil and gas leases near...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner: All American BBQ Food for Racists
You're hosting, or attending, a BBQ for red state neighbors? Here's some classic all-American food.
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