It Was Us on Our Own, We Nearly Wrecked Everything

In the middle of the Cold War, when Americans still had nightmares about the bomb, Russians exported actual warfare into the world, and the mass of mankind remained hungry and poor, the great philosopher Walt Kelley (who wrote about animals living in a swamp) warned us as clearly as he could.

SunshineDay

Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.

Salmon: Fish of a Thousand Casts

Most fly fishers are amateur meteorologists, so I know that the front in Minnesota will be here in a little over 24 hours and will probably be a rain event since the Gulf Stream is still pretty well off the coast.

A Story That Needed Halloween Telling

This Halloween, I’m going out trick or treating. Every year since we moved into our new house, my husband took our son and his friends out to trick or treat–or as I call it: They went “weening.”