Vancouver Two books I read on the planes, boats, and trains of this road trip went back to the author’s roots and my own in the West with powerfully evocative writing and hardscrabble truths painfully won. Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains by Josh Garrett-Davis caught my eye when he wrote an op-ed …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Just the Facts and Watching our Backs on Wikipedia
Vancouver There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us. I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …
Yukon Men and the Last Frontier in Alaska
New Orleans Getting ready to fly to Japan, Korea, and then Canada, I find myself watching Yukon Men and Alaska: The Last Frontier on the Discovery Channel on the elliptical machine at the gym. I find these shows magnetic in their own way. I can do without the endless father-son baloney, but they are not hokey and repetitive …