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I am stuck in oleoresin, both in metaphor and in real life: I am writing about the Floridian naval stores industry for an upcoming article and thus my mind is all atwitter with thoughts of oleoresin and its various and sundry products. I am also aware I have some pine resin stuck to my soccer shorts as I sit here writing in the kitchen: earlier, I removed a small pine branch that the thunderstorm-borne wind blew down in the back yard and it must have come from that. More ... I’m not sure how else to say it, but to somehow romanticize the past to cover up the reality that crimes were being committed does not take away from the truth that these activities were indeed criminal. More ... The land set aside for drilling in ANWR is no happy home for frolicking caribou, moose, and polar bear either. In fact, it is a barren heap. In the winter, the place is a sheet of ice. In "summer," it resembles a Wal-Mart parking lot. Flat, solid rock as far as the eye can see. So why aren’t we doing anything? More ... Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most -- in our pockets. More ... The Children's Society, a charitable group in the UK dedicated to improving childhood, released the results of a recent survey. It found that kids are way too materialistic these days. More ... In the small northern town of Gloucester, Massachusetts there are seventeen teenage girls who are about to become parents. Most of the expectant mothers are too young to be able to drive their new children home from the hospital or even hold down a job to pay for diapers without the newly-anointed grandparents' permission. More ... |
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