NIMBY: Not in My Backyard. What had been an acronym Merriam-Webster has ordained a word meaning “opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable (such as a prison or incinerator) in…
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Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker asks pointed, timely questions: “There are still plenty of deep thinkers out there, but who is listening? Who is reading?” Few, I reply. Parker references Adlai…
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Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more / More people, more scars upon the land. – John Denver, “Rocky Mountain High” It’s a simple…
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Let’s dub it the Mount Bierstadt Summit. “Summit” as in confluence of great forces inexorably leading to our demise, and “our” as in Earth as we know it and us, the…