Historic drought: Broiling heat baked much of the U.S. heartland this week, as the nation’s worst drought in more than 50 years devastated corn, soy, […]
News From Above
Oakland Zoo Auctioning Off Artwork By Animals
The Oakland Zoo RAISED money for conservation by auctioning artwork created by giraffes, bats, elephants and other resident animals. Thirty-two works of art by more […]
Facts & Trends
Inequality in Wealth
What’s most important—and troubling— is the decades-long, systemic expansion of the economic distance between the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor, […]
Soul Fountain: Featured
Short Story – The Haunting of Piedras Blancas (By DC Diamondopolous)
The gulls perch in conference on the white rock. Beyond is the blue empty sky, the vast sea without sails, no horizon. Blue. Come, Jemjasee. Am I to roam this rugged coastline for eternity, this journey without distance? I feel doomed, my struggle invisible. You must come, Jemjasee. Save me from my weariness.
Ideas
George Burns Quote – Run The Country
“It’s too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis.” – George Burns
