"Mom, that woman is naked!"
Las Vegas is a seductive place. As we drove into town down the Strip, the Penta-Posse was thrilled — billboard-size flat-screen televisions with life-like fireworks . . . (Women in g-strings – “Mom, that...
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Alchemy of Achievement
Major John Wesley Powell lost an arm in the Civil War, yet he went on to lead the first expedition that traveled the full length of the portion of the Colorado River that cuts...
The Politics of "Demeaning"
How strangely appropriate that the political denouement of Terri Schiavo’s sad odyssey began drawing to a close this past weekend on Good Friday. As our nation went through the weekend simultaneously debating the value...
He is Risen!
He is risen! He is risen indeed! The alarm went off at 3 AM. Could we manage to rouse five tired children and make it to the sunrise service at the Grand Canyon 90...
Run Cheri, Run!
With the news this morning that Terri Schiavo is dying and that the appeal to the Supreme Court has failed, we should be reminded that we need good people in our government. My...
The Culture and Carlsbad Caverns
No matter how high you fly — or how deep underground — the tectonic clash in our culture appears in the strangest places. . . One of our favorite stops on this grand Western...
It’s Hyperalimentation, not Hyperventilation
There in the plexiglass display case, in Mesa Verde National Park are two crude crutches from our stone-age past. We spent yesterday exploring the cliff dwellings of pre-historic Pueblo Indians — they built their...
Baseball or Life? Hmmm, Hard Call . . .
Here’s David Broder on Meet the Press yesterday on why Congress should not intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (her husband has had her feeding tube removed even though her parents have been fighting...
Meet the People, Mr. Brownstein
On yesterday’s Meet the Press, the roundtable discussed Congressional attempts to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case (just in case: the young Florida woman, who is brain-damaged, whose husband has succeeded in getting the...
Remember the Alamo
The version of the Alamo story that I knew prior to visiting the mission still standing in San Antonio, involved a vague idea that some Texans died defending a fort against a Mexican army....
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