I got a kick out of the first sentence: “So what’s the deal with the Pope? Do we like him … Do we not like him…?”
This shows how deeply important it is how we teach our children. They look to us to establish their own value system. That’s why children of Mormons become Mormon, children of Catholics become Catholic, children of atheists become atheists. What about children of illiterates? What about children of thieves?
Teach your children well.
In the era where Republican candidates run on slogans like “Make America Great Again” I wonder what they are comparing against. Do they really want to go back to the Bush years? REALLY? SERIOUSLY?
They call Obama the worst president ever. Let’s remember that Bush turned a $200 billion surplus out of the Clinton years into a $1.4 trillion deficit. Let’s remember that when Bush left the economy was in free fall and the DOW at 7000. And yet, the parade of jokers on the debate stage are making stuff up out of thin air.
Obama the worst president every? REALLY?
Here is a post I did about a year ago and it’s as true now as it was then.
I was born in Regensburg and grew up and went to school there. I spent the first 18 years of my life walking the cobblestones of the city’s ancient alleys. I just visited there again this past May, and stood on the old stone bridge, looking down on the Danube. I thank the author of this post for the beautiful postcard.
“Clinton is the only democrat who could lose.”
Now the fear is that she wins the nomination, and then loses to a bigot like Trump, who spreads hate, singles out specific religions as villainous, makes vapid statements about questionable realities, and acts like he is going to be elected king. As they said during the second Republican debate a few nights ago: These are dangerous times we live in.
This is a really cool gate. I want one.
This is on Colorado’s Capitol Peak, the Knife Edge, supposedly one of the more difficult 14-thousanders in Colorado. I don’t know about you, but if your hands were sweaty after you watched this, you are not the only one.
This is a video done by a friend of Twinkle, a thru-hiker whose blog I follow. Here is one of his posts with his own pictures on the Knife Edge just recently. I have a lot of respect for his skills.
I don’t think at 59, with bifocals distorting my vision and moving the location of footholds, I am willing to try a thing like that anymore.
My hands are still sweaty just watching.
I originally wrote this in April of 2012. It’s now more relevant than ever.
Devin just called me to wish me a happy birthday. Then we talked about the year when I hiked in resupplies to him on Bullfrog Lake on his latest JMT adventure. I thought it was three years ago, but he corrected me, it was 2010. So – then we decided to start planning for us to do the JMT together next summer. JMT, here we come. End of July, early August 2016. 22 days on the trail. Starting to train up now.
Killing Cecil – an American dentist at his bloody work
An unusual anecdote by one of my readers. He notified me in response to my recent Van Gogh post below. It turns out I am going to be in Philadelphia at the beginning of September. I am going to see the four (or five) Van Gogh paintings there.
It’s been a year or more since the scandal with the immigrant children stranded in Murrieta. I live only 30 miles from Murrieta and I remember being dismayed about the town getting notoriety for such a terrible reason. This is an enlightening guest post by Monica Romero-Curiel on my friend Dan’s site NorthierThanThou. It’s a powerful look into the souls of undocumented immigrant children. Go ahead, read this, and then tell me what should be “done with them.”
Ah, stumbled upon this old post about Henry Miller. London, Paris, Chula Vista! What a crack-up!
Did you ever wonder why we have the steering wheel on the left side in the US? Here is the answer.
Does space travel make you dumb? New research by NASA scientists seems to indicate so. As a science fiction enthusiast, I have to admit that I never gave this too much thought. This might be the reason why there are no aliens visiting us.
Here is a good article on the water problem in California. I have used the almond as an example. However, we grow rice, alfalfa, walnuts, and many other nuts and vegetables, all needing immense amounts of water. No – we can’t stop agriculture, of course not. But water should be traded like any commodity on the free market. If water were more expensive, we would not grow rice in California so we can ship it to Asia. That makes no sense.