Category: Mountain Dreams

 In the last month we’ve been given two reasons to drink red wine. First it was the resveratrol which was keeping overweight, out of shape mice young now it’s procyanidins… In the latest research, Roger Corder of Queen Mary’s School of Medicine in London and colleagues analyzed various components of red wine. They found that substances called procyanidins appeared to

The first thing up in my email que was the Washington Post this morning. The first headline that caught my eye was a story about the Freshman Senator from Virginia. In Following His Own Script, Webb May Test Senate’s Limits – washingtonpost.com At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia’s newest senator tried to avoid President

Thanks to Jason at kottke.org  Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap. Mr. Buffett compiled a data sheet of the

Garrison picked a good example of Horace’s writings. I find it a prayer I could also recite on a daily basis… On this day in 8 B.C., the Roman poet Horace died (books by this author). He hated the chaos of Rome, and when his patron gave him a farm in the Italian countryside, he wrote, “I prayed for this:

Colleen does it again…She takes me to where I need to be on this the day before I return to the grind. She starts it thus… A good book. A lounge chair. The sun makes freckles on my bared skin. A single fat fly buzzes by like a fighter pilot that doesn’t know the war is over. This one doesn’t

I have been reading a new blog. Kelly Harmon is a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova. I love the way she looks at life and the slightly twisted way she writes. If you have a minute or two go have a look at what she has posted since moving to Moldova. Her perspective on the joy’s of the back to the

Since they selected him to run the country it’s only fitting that they figure out what to do with him when he doesn’t. Time for a little accountability on the part of some black robed non-members of the electoral college?  WASHINGTON — Things are bound to heat up at the Supreme Court Wednesday, when justices weigh whether the Clean Air Act requires the

One of the nice things about the internet is the way you stumble upon the…the unexpected gem. One of the news feeds that I have been subscribed to for a few weeks is Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly. This morning while things were slow I was going through the archives at Cool Tools and decided to find out more about the site