If you drive I-5 in Northern California and Southern Oregon, you may notice some references to the State of Jefferson. There’s a barn near Yreka with a giant sign and lots of cars on the road have “Resident of State of Jefferson” license plate holders. What’s it all about? In 1941, Port Orford, Oregon Mayor [...]
You know how everyone looks like a goof riding a Segway? Turns out they don’t care, because it’s awesome. We played tourist in SF last weekend, thanks to Bryn and her savvy Groupon-ing. Along the route we learned some interesting trivia, some of which was even new to semi-locals like us. In a period of [...]
In the last 200 years, the human population on our planet has exploded. In an amount of time that is a mere nanosecond of earth’s history, we’ve multiplied like rabbits. We mastered our domain and became, in the grand scheme of things, an overnight sensation. Yes, like a double rainbow, we went viral. Now what? [...]
The latest manufactured controversy in California is over the assembly’s recent decision to pass a law mandating “gay history” be added to the curriculum in California public schools. Predictably, some people think this is at best just another example of the nanny state pushing the “homosexual agenda” and at worst a sure sign of the [...]
Is Valentine’s Day just a corporate-created “holiday” designed to part us from money? No. While Hallmark has certainly capitalized on the popular holiday, Valentine’s traditions long predate the company’s 1910 founding. The origins of Valentine’s Day can be traced all the way back to the Roman empire, when two Christian priests named Valentine were martyred. [...]
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I brought a couple books with me to Mexico but didn’t crack open either one! Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World has been on my list for a while but I haven’t gotten around to it until now. I was afraid he was going to be a Negative Nancy and who wants to read such a [...]
