Natural History

After the election, I posted the following on facebook: "This is not the America I swore to defend". Of course, when I entered the...

An article in the NY Times today tells the story of an ex-Marine (truly, an EX-Marine) about the hazing he tried to endure in boot camp. Thi...

I'm with her! I hear so often that our elections boil down to the choice between "the lesser of two evils", and I have voted ...

Civil rights I grew up in the midst of the civil rights era. In general, my parents got along very well – I only heard them argue a couple ...

Peg didn't want me to wear this shirt today because she didn't want me to dis my service. And the shirt might be interpreted that w...

There are certain phrases that rub me the wrong way, and this is one of them. Right now, we're in the midst of dealing with fundamentali...

The latests Science arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Usually I'm too busy to read much of it, but this morning I decided to take a brea...