Little Blog In The Big Woods

   That, actually, is what I spend most of my time trying to see.  Exactly what is - the problem?    I can tell you this; 9 times out of ...

I know, I owe you guys a guinea update. :-) Working on it. Meanwhile, I just made this comment over on Richard Black's BBC environme...

I have a little epiphany for you. One that hit me as I was driving across multiple states recently, observing our world. It's summed up...

  I wasn't going to do this.  Because it seems such a waste of time; first, tons of good people thinking hard, and second; the thousands...

One of the things I admire about both Crunchy Chic ken and Sharon Astyk is that they fearlessly charge into discussions that are bound to...

Ok, not exactly. But sort of. :-) The problem I want to discuss here is actually quite complex; ancient; and widely misunderstood. Whic...

SEX! That, incidentally, is what you ask your subjects to say when you are photographing people; not "cheese". Works every time...

We've got a bit of a real live phenomenon going on just now. I'd embed the video- but they're not allowing it yet- you have to...

Yesterday much ado was generated by Thomas Friedman; the NYT econ-astrology (trying that out, feonix; thanx...) columnist.   Friedman ha...

That's what y'all hang around here, for, right?  And here we are, New Year's Day- the premier day of the year for passing good,...

Stoneleigh, over at The Automatic Earth , cites some articles with a bit of discussion about macroeconomic models yesterday, pointing out so...

When we bought this farm- 160 acres- it had a "rough corner" - a steep rocky ravine, with a dry bottom.  About 40 acres of forest ...