Day January 8, 2005

No, not that kind of Maui Wowie. Sue and I are in Maui for our honeymoon, and an amazing place it is. Large mountains on the east and west of the island, one is 5,000 feet high, the other 10,000.…

Some friends recently told me that the ministers at their liberal church had decided the only way to oppose the religious right is by “doing good works.” They reasoned that to say the religious right was bigoted and a perversion…

Countries plan land rush in warming ArcticNoel Bourke sent in a pointer to this story about northern nations maneuvering to claim land in the Arctic. Fossil fuels, shipping lanes, and fishing are among the economic interests at stake, in an…

“We’ve set a date of (January) 15th as the time by which we want to have a contract in hand that meets our needs. And if that doesn’t happen, then we have to escalate, we have no choice,” Cooper said.…