Idaho has a lot of cattle. Almost certainly too many. So many that you have to be careful where you step when you’re outside of a town, or you’ll get something on your boot you probably don’t want. There aren’t many cattle in Alaska, but Governor Dunleavy has stepped in something and gotten stuff all…
Greater Sage Grouse populations have suffered catastrophic declines in recent years. It easily qualifies for classification as an endangered species. But in 2015, after years of painful negotiation and compromise, the stakeholders in the struggle to protect the iconic symbol of the Sagebrush Sea reached an agreement that avoided the painful consequences of classification as…
WC is watching Michael Cohen do his best John Dean to the U.S. House on Oversight and Reform.1 Yesterday, Representative Matt Gaetz (R, FL) on the eve of Michael Cohen’s testimony to Congress, issued a tweet: Hey @MichaelCohen212 – Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time…
It’s been a few months since WC attempted something like due diligence, following up on earlier blog posts to report subsequent developments. No, it’s not journalism, and WC doesn’t pretend it is. Think of it as an effort by WC to show he is paying attention. As always, the Magpie Principle applies. The Washington Post reports…
Our president uses language in unusual ways, a mix of babble, Orwell’s NewSpeak and nonsense. His recent bad weeks spawned a stream of new and unusual terms. Newer terms and phrases are towards the top. It’s tempting to wait and see what new phrases appear from Vietnam, but WC will go with the half-dozen new…
WC hopes to make this part of an irregular series of blog posts discussing the impacts of climate change on the United States, with a focus on some of the unexpected impacts. Because climate change is as real and as serious as a heart attack, no matter what some may say. The National Flood Insurance…
WC will undertake to explain the nation’s longest, stupidest government shutdown in words that possibly even Donald Trump can understand. There is no emergency at the border. It’s clear that illegal immigration is down and has been down for a while now. If there was truly an emergency, Congress would have addressed it when the…
