AS PROMISED, DEAR READERS, THIS WEEK I’M GOING TO TALK ABOUT PARIS. We began our journey into France from Zurich, Switzerland on the TGV, France’s famed “bullet train.” I’d never been on a modern high-speed train before, and the experience was exhilarating. Our train wound its way through tunnels and pastoral valleys, making its way […]
Tea party and the truth about ‘warming’
AT LAST!!! The hottest development on the Internet! The tea party has acquired its own news site. No longer will tea party truth be torn and twisted with impunity by the unknowing and uncaring and manipulative. The following is from a representative piece by the Tea Party News Network (TPNN) staff: To give the full […]
Think, Dream, Play: Thank you so very much!
BUSHY EYEBROWS ARE BACK IN. Thank God. Or just thanks. Or gee whiz! No more tweezing! When I heard that news, I wasted no time tossing the hot wax. Going back to my Brooke Shields! Even though I have only a few faded eyebrow hairs left, I do appreciate that piece of retro styling. Now, […]
Matt Talbot: Italy presents variety of architecture, landscapes
ON OUR LAST NIGHT IN ROME, we went over to St. Peter’s Basilica to see it in the evening light. I have fallen in love with this city, its people, its beauty. I will be back. My time here in Europe impresses upon me the most striking difference between here and the United States: Europe […]
A more balanced discussion of crude by rail
MOST DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE VALERO CRUDE-BY-RAIL PROJECT have focused on local concerns and agendas. The views are reflected in signs and posters at meetings and in yards around town. Those supporting the project say “Good for Benicia,” while those against it say “Good for Valero.” Though both messages are technically correct, they lack breadth and […]
Big Oil’s endgame: What it all means for Benicia
Editor’s note: Last of three parts to run on consecutive Sundays. Read part one by CLICKING HERE and part two by CLICKING HERE. IN APRIL 2014, THE HIGHLY RESPECTED Paris-based financial company Kepler Chevreux released a research report that has rippled through the fossil fuel industries. In it, Kepler Chevreux describes what is at stake […]
Jerome Page: The ‘mythology’ of climate change
I SELDOM RESPOND TO COMMENTARY UPON MY COLUMNS. However, given the great significance of this issue, I feel that an exception, as follows, is both justified and crucial. “There is simply no direct evidence that climate change is a man made phenomenum,” writes “Matter.” “No provable theory exists! Pure speculation and erroneous hypothesis based on […]
Matt Talbot: Finding joy in the journey as well as the destination
DATELINE: ROME. I’ve always wanted to start a column like that, and now, at last, my dream has been realized. Rome, the Eternal City, has me bewitched. Our first full day here, we awoke early and started at St. Peter’s Square, basically getting the lay of the land before we went there for real on […]
Grant Cooke: Big Oil’s endgame: While fossil fuel costs keep rising, renewable costs fall
Editor’s note: Second of three parts to run on consecutive Sundays. Read part one by CLICKING HERE. “The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil.” — Sheikh Ahmed-Zaki Yamani THREE KEY […]
Jerome Page: A movement is under way!
NOTWITHSTANDING MY BELIEF THAT IT IS THE MOST CRUCIAL ISSUE OF OUR TIMES, I have, as promised, gone easy on the topic of climate change for a few weeks. However there are several dramatic and crucial bulletins on this issue that must be attended. The first and most crucial is that this is not an […]