Mothers and Allies Challenge Wine Industrialist
Half a dozen mothers from small town and rural Sebastopol in Northern California quickly rallied hundreds of people to their side to challenge Sonoma County’s Paul Hobbs Winery. He wants to convert a 40-acre apple orchard into a vineyard that would use pesticides; it borders five schools on Watertrough Road, including Apple Blossom and Orchard More...
Critical Mass: The Secret History of a Concept
The term “critical mass” and the idea of bursts of evolution are usually attributed to biology. But that’s not where the term critical mass originated, it has been recycled in a rather More...
Organ Donation: The Gift of Life
I am an organ donor. This was a decision I made years ago. I checked the box to be one when I renewed my driver’s license. Honestly, it was an easy choice for me to make, but I realize many have moral, ethical More...
Weed
My Bud(dy) Humans have lived on this planet between 50,000 and 2,000,000 years. Weed has been criminalized since 1937. According to informed sources (Google), on the day the act was passed, the first “Marijuana More...
Seize the Momentum to Blog!
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte Artwork: Spirit of the Redwood More...
The New Christianity of Hatred and Exclusion
Lord, hear our prayer. My parents were both converts to Catholicism. My father had been raised Methodist and my mother Episcopalian. All three of us were baptized shortly before my first birthday, and I and my three More...
Cat Wisdom
The truth of the matter is always found after an excellent analyzation of the situation, past present and future matters all taken into consideration, with concentration on the present. Since we cannot change the More...
Heckling the Victim: A Common Right-Wing Tactic
Families of Sandy Hook (Reuters) Yesterday, a friend of mine posted on her Facebook page, “I am appalled by MSNBC’s reporting morals, for editing the news with the purpose of sensationalizing the polarizing More...
