Disaster Can Take A Nation By Surprise,

I'm A Journalist - I'm Not Robert Caro. I Have A Day Job, And A Pretty Consuming One - A Joyfully Consuming One.

Nature Is Cold, Wet, Hard And Unforgiving.

Trump's Rise Is Troubling Not Just On An American Level But On An International Level.

Journalism, Some Huge Percentage Of It, Should Be Devoted To Putting Pressure On Power, On Nonsense, On Chicanery Of All Kinds And If That's Going To Invite A Lawsuit, Well, Bring It On.

What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?