Jul 15 2008
Word has just come down that Susan Atkins, one of the women convicted in the Tate-LaBianca murders along with Charles Manson, has been denied compassionate release by the California Board of Parole. Atkins is dying of cancer, cannot sit up in bed, has had a leg amputated, is paralyzed on one side and cannot even [...]
May 30 2008
Having been to that part of the world in 2005, I read with interest stories about the “uncontacted” tribes in the Amazon (of course, they are not “uncontacted” at all, having got close enough to take pictures and be shot at with arrows, as the story relates, but that’s beside the point).
I’m not really sure whether [...]
May 03 2008
Okay, my bad, I know, and I’m not really very happy about it. I changed web hosts yesterday and I have lost all of the blog files, like archived posts, categories, links, etc. Hopefully, this is only a temporary thing, but stayed tuned. We’ll work it out. Really …
UPDATE (May 5, 2008): Well, so it [...]
Dec 01 2006
It is understandably biased in favor of Brits, but the Environmental Agency (the British version of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency) has come out with its list saluting “the 100 people who’ve done more to look after our planet than anyone else.”
While it’s hard to argue with their number one choice, Rachel Carson, author of [...]
