When I made my monthly run to the county seat yesterday, I fiddled around until it was a little later than I’d intended because the Montana highway report said there was frost on the road surface.  That means slippery.  It will soon be time to watch out for frost heaves as well, which means humps of broken pavement that soon deteriorate into potholes.  I’ve always...

Book as dance — NOT an object but a time-art.  This is a concept I’ve been pursuing for a while.  Bless Dave Lull, “the cross-pollinating librarian,” for sending me this quote this morning, just as I was about to embark on the rough seas of explanation. (I don’t have anything against book critics per se — just the idea that I have to agree with them. ...

Curiously enough, more earthquakes hit the world. This time at Taiwan and more recently Turkey. By just looking at a map of tectonic plates and observing data, we can obviously see that there is no geological connection between the earthquakes in the Americas (Chile & Haiti) and the ones in Asia and Turkey. Obviously the only reason why many people (and some media) are...