Nov. 23 – 27, 2015 The week begins with a polite, controlled rant about obvious income inequality and COME THE REVOLUTION THE POOR WON’T BE DIRT-POOR OR THE RICH FILTHY-RICH EVER AGAIN. Meanwhile, Cameron’s fretting because she’s going snow camping and can’t take along any pumpkin pie which is ancient, has political overtones, and is […]
Miscellaneous
Here’s a thing I hate: calling plugs and ports “male” and “female.” In case you’ve never heard of this before, the terms are applied like this: things that plug are called “male” and things that receive those plugs are called “female.” So, a nut is female. A bolt is male. Your headphones have a male […]
Two years ago, the People of LWON pondered the idea of gratitude, that is, the awareness of grace. We hope you don’t mind if we ask you to click so we can remind ourselves of it. And everyone, please, have a sunny and warm Thanksgiving. ___ Art credit: Terri Kahrs
Exactly 10 years ago today, I got one of those calls we all dread. My mom had cancer, a stage-4 brain tumor, the kind that seems to pop up out of nowhere fully formed and beyond repair. I was standing in my kitchen when I heard the news, and I remember dropping the phone as I […]
November 16-20, 2015 Guest Ramin Skibba predicts a rise of Persian science that will parallel sanctions relief. Helen takes a tour of a DC wastewater plant that has a new biosolids processing system. Craig sees “The Martian” and traces its story through a continuum of intellectual striving that was alive in the Paleolithic development of […]
In April 2001, my cousin and I hitchhiked to Quebec City to register our dissent. Tens of thousands were gathered to protest the Free Trade Areas of the Americas Summit and we wanted to play our part for global social justice. Like many politically active young people before and since, I experienced what can happen […]
Driving through my hometown in Kentucky, I admire the old-growth oaks, the spires and stained glass of Victorian era homes, and the tall brick chimneys. Then I think about how they would crumble in an earthquake. Ever since moving to the west coast, I size up the earthquake safety of every place I go: I […]
Two nights ago I sat in a theater watching the film “The Martian.” I loved seeing a viable spacecraft making gravitational slingshots around planets while a stranded, potato-growing astronaut claimed himself the first colonist on Mars. What’s there not to love? Meanwhile, in my coat pocket I carried an object from an entirely different age […]
