With summer coming to an end soon, I found myself getting nostalgic. Then it dawned on me, what summer? I recalled Mark Twain’s quote, “The coldest winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco.
According to NASA, 2010 has been the hottest year on record. Atmospheric CO2 is at an all time high and global warming is rearing its sweltering head.
I’m not so big on gifts. Correction: I’m big on Oprah-style gifts, like “We’re buying you a house!” or “Say hellllloooooo to your new ISLAAAAAAAND!” (Either a kitchen or tropical one would be fine by me).
So, to be a Boston Red Sox fan and watch the Yankees lose at Fenway Park is amazing. To watch the Lakers beat the Celtics at Staples Center is memorable.
It’s hard to believe it’s only been four years since the last mid-term elections. In 2006, the major difference between the parties was that Democrats were united in their desire for our troops to come home from Iraq (since our military had done all it could), and Republicans were committed to stayi
Fathers have a difficult time staying involved in their children’s lives. The courts usually keep the children with mom when dad moves out. The courts and mom expect dad to continue working as much as he did, for two reasons; the courts want him to make as much money as he has been, and some moms wa
Can we have it all? Can we pick and choose between which natural resources we want to protect and exploit without accepting the fact that they are all interconnected? In her thought-provoking piece on Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the proposed Pebble Mine, Times reporter Kim Murphy quotes individuals who
Those of us among the teeming masses who live in multi-family residential neighborhoods are generally satisfied with city services. But there’s room for improvement.
The enemy is out there. They are ready to attack us with no warning. They’re almost impossible to find. We are in danger from them 24 hours a day. They may come from foreign lands, or from America.
Q: I know I should report crimes if I see them, but I’m afraid to get involved. What is our civic duty to report crime? A: What is civic duty? Civic duty is defined as the responsibilities of a citizen.
Tomorrow is the ninth anniversary of 9/11, one of the darkest days in American history. Everybody remembers where they were when they saw the planes hit the World Trade Center.
A company in Utah owns my genes, or at least they owned bits of them until recently when the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York invalidated patents issued to Myriad Genetics for the breast cancer genes, known as BRCA1 and BRCA2.
