American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: America’s ‘legal despotism’
No one was more attuned to the burgeoning of American democracy than the curious Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. Traveling...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week August 20 – 26, 2025
Virgo – Sheaf of Wheat & Shimmering Stars
On Friday this week, August 22, the sun shifts from the fires of Leo (the Light of...
The Dirt on Nicky
Condo Flora
August lay like a sauna on the condo by the lake. The adventurous gardener sauntered around the complex. Other visitors probably peeked behind...
The Reel News
Pictured are Rudy, Richard and son, and brother Tyron from Springdale, who fished with Juan Granados with Hooked on Fishing.
Beaver Tailwaters report:
There’s something about...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Singapore is an island-city-state that has suddenly taken the world’s longevity trophy. People in Singapore are living to an average of mid-80s.
Singapore is #1...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We’re bombarded with uncertainty.
The weather is macabre – current wildfires in Canada, the Mediterranean, the western U.S., Pakistan, Russia, Algeria, Peru, the Arctic Circle...
Land in our Hands
All we are saying is give peace a chance
Lennon, Ono 1969
“You know I’ve talked to groups of thousands about lots of subjects over the...
Hall Closets
Many full moons ago this column properly addressed and undressed the uber-capitalistic and fascist ways and means of the NC2A, particularly its most recent...
The Coffee Table
A Nomad’s Nightmare
My parents didn’t own a home until I was an adult and living on my own. For all of my childhood, my family...
The Dirt on Nicky
A story about mallows
If you’re a big fan of s’mores and bought a pack of marsh mallow seeds, you’re in for a big surprise....