I pick up a tip on the road that Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley is the best place IN THE WORLD to catch a cross-country ride. My interest is  piqued. I arrive there about daybreak and already the hitchhikers line the
avenue as far as the eye can see. There were signs… Read full post »

More of a headline than a post, really.

I have been feeling guitly about not posting, so I dug something out of the files, cleaned it up a little, and here it is.

Terrytunes Presents: The Great Adventures of Me, Tom Terrific

[In the wake of the 1969 LA mudslides, our hero hitchhikes down the coast to… Read full post »

Since a number of bloggers have expressed concern about the health care bill that congress passed, I'm passing on a copy of a letter from my congressman which I think does a good job of explaining why he thought it was a valuable piece of legislation. 

"Today, our country took… Read full post »

In the Appalachian region of  New York where I live we’re experiencing a boom in natural gas drilling. There is a strata of rock known as Marcellus shale. When the shale is drilled into horizontally and massive amounts of water are pumped in, natural gas is released. There is plenty of… Read full post »

The word “racist” gets tossed around a lot lately. I’m afraid we’re devaluing the term. I was born in 1951. In those days white people enjoyed privilege based on race. Racial superiority was espoused and embraced. It was institutionalized, and the law of the land. This was rac… Read full post »