American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: The Arsenal of Democracy
On the last Sunday night of December 1940, Franklin Roosevelt sat before a radio microphone in the White...
The Dirt on Nicky
Plant hunters
Back when we made long treks from Asia to the Fertile Crescent without GPS or Rand-McNally atlases, we got hungry along the way,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We probably all know a fisherman and we probably all know an artist. But how many people are both?
The Japanese were early birds in...
The Coffee Table
The Profitability of Radical Kindness
I’ve been encountering “nonprofit” organizations that make me bristle. Like the one that will charge me to dump my kitchen scraps...
The Reel News
Pictured is Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Austin Kennedy with this very nice Beaver Lake smallmouth bass.
The Beaver tailwaters have continued to produce good fishing...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week June 3 – 9, 2026
Sunbeams, Light Beams, the Light of Interplay – Gemini
We remain under the light of Gemini. Gemini’s Light is the “light of interplay.” Gemini...
The Coffee Table
Bat Mitzvah and Jam
I recently attended my adult daughter’s bat mitzvah via Zoom. Generally speaking, religious ceremonies don’t resonate with me. And when...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week May 26 – June 2, 2026
Gemini Festival of Humanity – World Invocation Day & the Esoteric Equation for Peace
The third Spring Festival, the Gemini solar festival at the full...
Dinner for Six
Ken Rundel is a music aficionado who’s been in radio for many years and who can brag he was at Woodstock. He currently hosts...
The Dirt on Nicky
Hiding in the goosegog patch
Take yourself back a couple hundred years or so to a village on the coast of France. On the morning...