Yesterday, I was attacked going out of my driveway by my neighbor’s dog. The standoff lasted half an hour before I was able to make her back off, but I was confined to my house the rest of the day, not wanting to confront her snarling and yapping lunges again.
We know a good deal more about long Covid than we did during the epidemic. However, we seem strangely unable to think clearly about this new knowledge. The consequences are not to be sneezed at.
Doña Ana County has approved the construction in Santa Teresa (near El Paso) of the $165 billion Jupiter Project. What does that mean?
Everyone agrees that America changed with the election and re-election of our present President, but they all disagree about what that change is and if the change is good, bad, or ugly. My two-cents worth is that American eugenics has changed to pop-eugenics, and pop-eugenics rules the day.
Two days ago, @realDonaldTrump posted a glorification of ICE activities in Los Angeles. I analyze the writing to look for the real Donald Trump and what he is really saying to us as he advocates for an expansion of deportation.
Our President has created a "sovereign wealth fund," which considers all government holdings as assets, investments for return of capital. This business enterprise immediately turns the federal holdings from their original purpose of public service into assets to be used to make money. Public land is now an asset.
Elon Musk brandished a chainsaw at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference and shouted that it symbolized his intention to cut government spending. In this article I analyze the meanings that chainsaw carries, and my conclusions are different from what the media has said.
I link to Searchlight New Mexico's article which interviews three people recently fired from the Forest Service. I follow with an opinion piece discussing the continual firing of civil servants as the product of a new idea of government, not imagined in the country's past.
Locally-produced film "Hell or Hot Water" to be shown at El Cortez Theater on February 27th
The 4th annual Sierra County Student Art Show is coming up. This has been a hugely successful -- and growing -- event, that has generated thousands of dollars in student art scholarships. And you can help.
An open invitation to the annual Sierra County Arts Council Membership party scheduled for Saturday February 1st.
Take the test on the secretary of state's website and see how hard it is to tell a deepfake from a real photograph.
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