Today's intelligence: the lastest on a proposed state alcohol tax, the state budget, an attempt by the EPA to increase clean water standards and the deepening financial troubles of a Virgin Galactic sister space-launch company
The Republican Party of Sierra County is hoping that you will believe that protecting LGBTQ persons' rights and women's and girl's rights to seek or not to seek an abortion are somehow an impingement of parents' and conscientious-objectors' rights. It's confusing, which is the point.
Today's intelligence: The end of free COVID vaccines, tests and treatments for New Mexicans is near.
We often gaze at life through a filter, a window. What we see and experience from either inside or out varies and most often colors how we perceive. When you step outside, reality is a ready embrace
Today's intelligence: According to a special report by Searchlight New Mexico, Truth or Consequences's last best hope to avoid a water infrastructure meltdown is an infusion of cash drawn from the pools of discretionary monies that the governor and state legislators can use to fund high-priority projects.
Today's intelligence: heighten awareness and precautions after rabies incident in Sierra County
I return to the idea of entropy, this time as a measure of the increasing randomness in the universe, and I relate this increase to our gradual loss of social cohesion under the influence of individualism, to the breakdown of language in our culture, and to our carelessness about Covid.
New Mexico in coordination with the US Geological Society look for "critical minerals" at Copper Flat Mine in an effort to expand mining.
The exposition of recent changes in reading and writing leads to this excursion on a breakdown of what we used to think was the social function of language. That postulate is discussed by analyzing the comments to this series of articles as symptomatic of that breakdown.
A cold winters walk through a favorite canyon reveals ephemeral moments to enjoy.
I've weighed the way three institutions have historically unshaped our idea of democracy as a model of human relations. I now turn to look at how these cultural tendencies impact public discourse and our apparent inability to settle any public issue.
The validation of a personal, individualistic point of view in American culture to the exclusion of an objective, shared, and collective perspective constantly puts us at odds with one another because individuals normally disagree in judgement, interpretations, and opinions.
