I told my mother ahead of time that she was mentioned and it made her nervous. She got over it after she read it. I didn’t know this but judges and psychiatrist are always working together to decide what to do with people. A typical example is the police picking somebody up for standing in […]
The most powerful and probably most overlooked weapon has got to be the Right Word, or words. Say the right word(s) at the precise time and Boom! then sit back, relax and watch the fireworks begin. Many is the time I have read something and wish I had said this or that, knowing immediately they […]
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”. You know who, and he was wrong. Yes, the self-taught, first bearded US president, whose wife’s family owned slaves, the one who was in the first inaugural picture—with his future assassin standing above in the balcony—was wrong. We’re seeing every day that everything is divided: our state, our […]
Amigos. In an effort to keep everybody informed, here is an interesting article on squid—Gustavo’s favorite party snack. It’s actually a series of articles, all well done, including the watercolor pictures (really cool, wish I had the originals). The series is called Ocean Shock and it deals with climate change, or at least ocean warming. […]
The link below is to the essay as it was published on the pages of the Denton Record Chronicle: I submitted the article with the word sceptic in the title, but the editors evidently thought better of it, probably with good reason, as it was sure to confuse most everyone. Sceptic, however, is an accepted […]
First, an explanation: In the past, I’ve been publishing the letter I wrote and the link to the article on the pages of the Denton Record Chronicle, which now seems redundant. And it is. From now on I will publish the link (below), and use this space to provide some further notes on the subject […]
A los ríos del mundo, que inspiran, renuevan, refrescan y reviven, contagiando el espíritu con aventuras por venir y la magia de lo desconocido, al mismo tiempo que no se olvidan de seguir su acostumbrado recorrido rumbo al mar. Como será que a veces remando me pregunto que si no es por esto ¿qué […]
Terricolas . . . Que tal, terrícolas. Bill Clinton aquí. No, no el mismo Clinton que seguro se les proyecta en sus cerebros subdesarrollados, pero otro, uno que vive en el polo norte de la luna. Sí, para ustedes soy extraterrestre o planetario, como más les guste. Igual, les aseguro que eso obedece al […]
HO EL 5 . . . Ante un hombre enamorado, sálvese quien pueda. —Seguro que usted está casado —dijo Soledad, dirigiendo sus palabras al profesor en forma de pregunta—. Veo que usa anillo. ¿Cómo es que se acostumbra a estar aquí, solo, en un lugar tan caluroso, tan aislado, tan lejos de su tierra, con […]
If you’re going to have a nuclear accident, I say let it be a good one, a real catastrophe, with a partial core meltdown, and obviously in another part of the world, far, far away. Which is exactly what happened in Chernobyl in 1986. The accident cleared a 2000 square mile swath of land, now […]