What Do I Know?

 It's Thursday.  The Refugee Assistance and Immigration Service of the Catholic Social Services in Anchorage has a farm - Grow North Far...

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2023/06/19/shooting-of-man-sleeping-in-south-anchorage-parking-lot-was-unprovoked-attack-prosec...

Springtime In Anchorage Spring in Alaska is different.  We still have a significant amount of snow on the ground.   And streets look like st...

Here's the email I got yesterday: Hey Steve, Vaclav Havel isn’t just the one man perhaps most personally responsible for bringing do...

That was my reaction to the Odessa shooting.  The rest of this is me thinking out loud while my nieta* is off with her mom for a bit. But ...

It became clear to me, while teaching about ethics and 'the public interest' that there were good explanations why the public intere...

Scholars Jillian Peterson and James Densley  list four common traits of the mass shooters they studied.  This is a very abbreviated form fr...

I'd never been to the mosque before - it's only been completed in the last couple of years and it's hidden on a side street in a...

There seem to be fewer notable people born in 1919.  World War I had ended in November1918.  There had been a big influenza epidemic in 1918...

We get so much news, so fast, and so superficially covered, that it's hard to separate the trivial from the truly significant.  We knew,...

In April 2014 I wrote a post titled  How To Shoplift Without Getting Caught - This Only Works For Whites .  It recounted African-American as...

Ben Wizner explains why he's making this discussion public: "Through it all, I’ve found him to be the clearest, most patient, and...

Summer began the last couple of days.  Today is magnificent.  I went to a rally against guns in Fairview and here are a couple of shots of t...

I went over to Bainbridge High School to see the student walkout this morning.  Here are some pictures and a bit of video. ...