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-Benjamin Franklin
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The Dark-Eyed Junco
With the weather warming, the bird feeder (the cat’s equivalent of television) is showing more activity. These days, it’s mostly dark-eyed juncos. The juncos are basically a sparrow, not exceptionally small for sparrows, and considerably easier to distinguish than sparrows typically are. Here, the juncos tend to be gray with dark heads and some white Read more
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‘Rural Folks Are Anti-Environmentalism’ and Other Lies
by Claire Carlson, The Daily YonderApril 24, 2024 Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Every so often, I encounter a capital-E environmentalist – someone with an Read more
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Eureka Community Players Pulled Off First Large Performance of the Year
The ‘Belle of the Ball’ wasn’t the first performance of the year, but it was the first of the three plays that the players will perform this year. Earlier this year, the players put on a series of one-act plays written by local authors and a choir concert. It’s already time for auditions for the Read more
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Another Rendezvous Quilt Show
The quilt show was busy and colorful. There’s still time to get raffle tickets for the Scraps and Threads raffle quilt (drawing to be held at the fair). This year, quilt guild members could be seen in embroidered shirts. Visitors voted on their favorites in each category. As in previous years, the quilt show was Read more
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Counterintuitive Way to Change Population Declines
An article in the Washington Examiner led me to Stockholm Research Reports in Demography. Now demography interests me – and Miska Simanainen also wrote an article contrasting Putnam’s views on Social Capital with Bourdieu’s that matched my thoughts – and he’s working on his dissertation at Stockholm. His paper is available here – and I Read more
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Do I Vote For a Crap Sandwich or a Crap Salad?
The illusion of choice reigns. Given the choice between Trump and Hillary, the choice between Trump and Biden, I had to choose Trump. Others are more down on Trump and had to choose Biden or Hillary. Voting against the worst candidate is a choice. The thing is, it’s a forced choice, an unnatural choice. How Read more
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