by Yule Heibel

I learned about Paul Williams through an article in a shelter magazine. Williams was the “architect to the stars” who at mid-century designed houses for Lucille Ball and other luminaries. He was also the architect of the futuristic-looking Los Angeles airport building. And he was African American. His early childhood sounds nearly Dickensian (orphaned at […]

Doug at The Alders pointed to this a few days ago, on Feb. 2: an article by Thom Hartmann that explains how the malfunction of the Great Conveyor Belt might be the new ice-cold tipping point for global cooling that no one can ignore: …the warm water of the Great Conveyor Belt evaporates out of […]

(…and the seasons on the hamsterwheel they go ’round and ’round and the painted ponies they go up and down…) As a PhD’d homeschooling mother who doesn’t have a career — but who did for a while have au pairs for the duration of her brief teaching career at MIT, Brown University, and finally, the […]

Hmm, let’s see if I can muster enough pseudo-technical skill to put this up, a tv commercial my friend Cheryl sent me via email. Click on the following: Papa It might take a while to load, but it’s very funny. Details I liked? His suit catching fire at just the right moment, the colour of […]