The election ended weeks ago, and I must be the only voter in America who could still call herself “undecided.” I may not look it. To judge by the voting patterns of most of my family and friends, the…
Election Blues… I have little or no enthusiasm for this election campaign. Nor do I think the outcome, either way, will dramatically change anything. The election of 2008 was supposed to change EVERYTHING. It didn’t. Whether you want to blame…
by stiles • • Comments Off on Herb Ringer’s American West: Moab, Utah in 1952 and 2012…What a difference 60 years makes.
HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Glen Canyon, 50 years after the Dam About the Grand Canyon Trust, ‘A Just & Healthy Future,’ & Doug Meyer’s Honest Response The Rise and Fall of Hair…A History SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles The Trouble…
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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.…By Jim Stiles * Was Cactus Ed’s Last Joke On US? SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘WHY I HATE WESTERNS’ THE DOG OF THE MONTH!!! FUZZY (1992-2012) So long to my old cat…Stiles GAINING PERSPECTIVE: Two Years in…
Fuzzy 1992-2012 We don’t choose our cats. They choose us. One afternoon in the late autumn of 1993, a small grey cat appeared on my back porch and would not leave. I tried to chase her away—I was not a…
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2/3…TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT….By Jim Stiles THE ‘OCCUPY MOVEMENT’: * Just WHO is Occupying WHOM? (“I’m shocked! I’m shocked!” * The 99% at War with Itself * Occupying Wall Street vs Occupying Wal-Mart—the root of the problem MY WORST…AND…