NYC transit ad — Image New York Daily News Among the many stunning things I’ve learned since joining the NARAL board last fall is that roughly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended. This isn’t a surprising number if we’re talking about women in developing countries where access to contraception is poor, or big families remain a …
Monthly Archives: January 2016
A Well-Regulated Militia
NRA Instructor JB Herren works on a student’s technique. Photo Friday Harbor Gun Runners Count me among those who were beyond dismayed to see gun control move back to a central place on the progressive agenda. It’s not that I don’t agree that we’ve got a problem with mass shootings; negligent owners; yahoos with fantasies of …
Inattention to Detail
Photo: Bend Bulletin A dozen “Patriots” are holed up in a federal wildlife refuge outside of Burns, OR this morning. I hope no one is genuinely surprised by this — at least, not anyone who remembers what happened at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada last year. Because make no mistake: it was federal inattention in …
3….2….1….
Cockpit of N278CA, the Cessna 172 I fly most often. The Wordpress dashboard is only slightly less complicated. Photo Rainier Flight Service And we have liftoff. It’s been a long three years since I set down my keyboard and wandered off the blogrolls. The lost time was, on balance, the wander that I’ve needed, taking …