Coal and tobacco: Do today’s global warming campaigners have something to learn from the tobacco wars? A lot, I think. Yesterday’s New York Times headline feed featured…
Trawling the news feeds, I often find two articles in the same publication that, without referring to each other, tie together a much larger story than either tells.…
We’ve been driving byways for the past 16 days. This is another report from the road. *** Energy’s past and present we’ve seen in signs: from upstate…
I was going to observe John Cheever’s centenary with a brief post. Then, I saw in The Writer’s Almanac that Rachel Carson, too, was born on May 27, but in…
New Trier, Minn.: German Catholic Cemetery 7/16/11 We’ve heard much in the past several months about moving responsibility for regulation closer to the people, making Federal duties State, turning state…