Monthly Archives: December 2013

Cadillac Desert by the late Marc Reisner (1948-2000) is an excellent history of vanishing water in the USA southwest. It was among the 100 best books of the 20th century. Reisner’s vocabulary is so advanced that one might be in need of consulting a dictionary while pouring through the book. “Sesquipedalian tergiversation” is another way of describing [...]

  As millions in the most powerful military nation in history prepared for Thanksgiving, U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers entered air space over the South China Sea claimed by China. The British Broadcasting Corporation alone reported this unpleasant news item while U.S. networks focused on turkey, inclement weather and football. U.S. troops ate nearly 50,000 [...]