Nature will out

by | Mar 21, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

In a first go at making it in academia I tried graduate school in English. At the time, the mid-nineties, my colleagues liked to embed art in the historical moment along with other texts. The author acted as some sort of filtering conduit for the historical moment....

Solar powered kitty

by | Mar 28, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

Last month an expert on FoxNews explained why Germany can get so much of its energy from today’s sun, whereas we in the Insatiable States have to get our energy from the sun of millions of years ago. It turns out that it’s always sunny in Germany, just as...

Carpe Pascham

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

Children and some adults love holidays. Curmudgeons like myself find them tiresome. They come a bit too frequently to really count as special occasions; they’re also unmoored from the traditions and cultures that once made holidays meaningful. They are all, of...

Control

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

When we read about the Catholic Church these days, it’s in connection with pedophilia. The whole switch-a-pope thing was trumped up to give them some positive press. Back in the middle ages, though, the Church was at the top of its game. That’s not to say...

Onion Update

by | Apr 18, 2013 | Talk Dirt to Me

This year I started my onions at about the same time as last year: in early March, but this spring has been cooler than last. Last year, I put onions in the ground right around the first of April, and harvested lots of big onions that kept us through the winter....