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Backwoods Accordion Festival was well attended
Trego’s Backwoods Accordion Festival was well attended Saturday. Music began at the Trego Pub at three and continued until 9 pm, featuring: Ray Jacobs and…
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Fire Sky
The air is hazy, and the sun is red. And the sunsets? The sunsets are vibrant. Why? It is for the same reason a sunset is red. Particles in our atmosphere scatter light, and they scatter blue light more…
Breathing Smoke- Once Again
Well, the smoke has hit us a bit earlier this year, and it isn’t quite as hazy as it was last year when I wrote about breathing smoke. Smoke inhalation isn’t something to take lightly- it comes with a number of unpleasant symptoms. Here’s Last Year:Tuesday, September 15th of 2020 Smoke seemed to fill the air over the course of Saturday, with the mountains becoming increasingly difficult to see. According to the CDC, breathing in smoke may have several immediate effects: trouble breathing coughing wheezing headaches scratchy throat stinging eyes These, among other unpleasant side-effects are caused primarily by the…
Making Hay
Cutting grass is the main component of making hay – and, until the mid 1840s, the task was left for human muscles, usually with a scythe or sickle (I have seen artifacts where stone chips were glued into wood or bone preceding iron or bronze). I’m haying about 18 acres of old lake bed – drained with ditching powder about a century ago. It isn’t the best cropland (it’s a high shrink-swell clay known as a vertisol that is high in calcium salts), but the decision to turn it into hayland was made at least 30 years before I was…
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The Misery Index
Almost a half-century ago, an economist named Arthur Okun developed the Misery Index. It’s a simple calculation – just add the unemployment rate to the inflation rate, and you have the Misery Index. He also came up with Okun’s law – which is online, but I think it would be better termed Okun’s estimate. At…
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Reading the First and Second Amendment
The First Amendment, protecting free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, begins with the words “Congress shall make no law . . .” The second Amendment ends with “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” I looked them up after hearing an argument that “The right to free speech does not include yelling fire in a crowded theatre” as a reason that specific categories of firearms could be legitimately controlled. It isn’t a valid argument – “Congress shall make no law” does not say or mean the same thing as…
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