Conservation | Beth Byrnes

It’s Jai time

Posted on December 4, 2015 27 Comments

Sometimes it is just too late. That is what the President said earlier this week, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King at a press conference on the UN climate summit. You can wait too long for something and miss your chance. So, one has to be informed and ready to act. As I have mentioned previously, we missed the […]

Agrivation

Posted on March 9, 2014 21 Comments

I have been working all week on an intense project and ideas for this particular topic have been swirling through my head. Sometimes they gel into a cogent statement, buttressed by facts from all the sources that spin past me each day and at other times, they just drop into the pool of ideas that […]

Neither ruthful nor …

Posted on January 30, 2014 14 Comments

… veracious. After we listened to Obama’s SOTU, I forced myself to sit through one of the multifarious opposing “responses”. Geoffrey walked the dog, unable to stomach what followed. It was no response at all, of course. Clearly they write this flummery without acknowledging what the President actually said, even though I am fairly sure […]

Babes ‘n’ arms

Posted on October 1, 2013 6 Comments

The New York Times now has a running series of articles as a category, focusing on guns and the NRA. I happened to notice two of them this week that are particularly concerning and both have to do with the fact that children are being targeted for gun sales and are also killing each other […]

Slimed

Posted on September 14, 2013 8 Comments

Now, even though you all know I am a vegan (right?) … This is not to discuss the merits or drawbacks of an omnivorous or herbivorous diet. But what do we (in the royal sense) think of this? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/09/pink-slime-goes-back-to-school.html Here is my take. First of all, the name says something to me. Do we really […]