Why fish just one of the Gunnison’s three unique sections?Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:29AMMONTROSE — Do you want the complete package? One local cable company temptingly offers the “Triple Play,” a complete-package deal for all three services they offer. Interested in an even better deal? Try this version of the complete-package triple play: One river — the Gunnison — with three very different kinds of fishing water.
Thanks, Gideon andSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Thanks, Gideon and Ben.b.shah for your thoughtful responses It is difficult to make sense of so much data when you have to constantly dive underneath to question the bias. I find it unfortunate that this blog is as polarised as it is with what seems an ungenerous attempt by the better informed to move the conversation forward. It would be great to have ...
Ben. Re Quiggin, is there aSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Ben. Re Quiggin, is there a misunderstanding here? My point is that the much derided economist class have been considered only progressive insofar as they became non-economists and wore a political mantle, but this is and always has been unfair. Maybe the bad press will disappear as the Greens and others embrace what Garnaut, Stern, Stiglitz and others ...
Dr Tad - A medical doctorSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Dr Tad - A medical doctor claiming taxes on tobacco and alcohol have been of “limited effect”. Now I really have seen everything. I don’t normally get angry in comments, but your post made me angry. Angry enough to examine the peer-reviewed literature on the effect of price on tobacco consumption. Here’s a paper in the prestigious British Medical ...
Now Ben, don’t be so hardSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 11:02PMIn reply to The Carbon Tax We Had To Have : Now Ben, don’t be so hard on Dr Tadtietze — we all rationalise our emotional commitments, don’t we, and emotional commitments don’t come much deeper than ideology!
Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors on View at the Julia Stoschek CollectionSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 5:10AMSimon Denny, Multimedia Double Canvas Progression. DUSSELDORF.- The Julia Stoschek Collection is presenting selected works in a newly designed exhibition.
East Tennessee novelist Amy Greene to present July 13 reading at APSUSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 5:10AMUp in the foothills of East Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, a few old timers still tell folk stories of spirits and curses. The fog that hangs low over their porches and sloping front yards lends a mystical quality to their words. It's as if these men and women live in the secluded last bastion of a magical world, untouched by the modern influence of science.
Veteran travel writer Paul Theroux explores the nature, history of travel in his latest bookSunday, July 10, 2011 @ 12:07AM"The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux (Houghton Miffl
Maps to the soul: Shelly Salter’s artwork tells deeper storiesSaturday, July 2, 2011 @ 1:40PMShe’s a little different. “I have always felt a little like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole,” admits artist Shelly Salter. “People seem to expect you to be a little different and accept it!” But Salter said that difference is the unique perspective she brings to each piece she creates— telling her stories in strokes of paint.