Glencore: corporate citizen – a reprise

August 6, 2015

The sound you hear is scales falling

by Steve Timmer

Another abandoned sulfide rock mine spill

August 6, 2015

But not to worry, all the aquatic life was already killed a long time ago

by Steve Timmer

Consider the walleye

August 3, 2015

See the updates below. I swear to you that I never in my blogging life thought I’d write a story that had walleye in the title. But a whole industry has grown up around a fish that is, in general, a snore to catch, and it must be saved. But they taste so good, a […]

by Steve Timmer

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

July 30, 2015

Not me, couldn’t be! The tourist industry refrain

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Cecil and Palmer, a GOP allegory

July 29, 2015

We belong to the earth, the earth does not belong to us

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Pastor Dewey Smith – Homosexuality

July 25, 2015

Smith understands what the Evangelicals have yet to come to comprehend

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Hubris and blandishments

July 21, 2015

It hasn’t been much in the news around here, but in more sentient parts of the world, notice has been made of the fact that the United States’ monument to the Cold War — the Runit Dome, or the Tomb, to the locals — is leaking radiation after having built a mere 35 years ago. Swell. This is […]

by Steve Timmer

Unfinished business from the ’60s

July 20, 2015

Progressive boomers may have to go back to the streets to finish our business

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Technically, Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott should be disbarred

July 15, 2015

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry and that states are required to issue them marriage licenses. Yet many public officials have publicly encouraged people to break the law. Among them are attorneys, such as Texas governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. They […]

by David Schultz