I’m only a city boy, but even I knew, driving through rural Wisconsin recently, near
the St. Croix Valley, that the corn stalks are unusually high this year. The weather has
been remarkable for some time, i.e. colder than normal in some places during the winter
and summer, warmer than normal in some [...]

Little noted recently, with so much else in the political news of late, is the fact
that Newt Gingrich’s standing in virtually all public opinion polls has risen somewhat
dramatically.
This has to be taken with numerous grains of sea salt, of course, but I think it does
tell us something about the incipient [...]

Less noted in the discussion this year’s mid-term elections, preoccupied as it
has been with party labels (and which party will be in control of the senate next
January), have been signs of rejuvenation in the Democratic Party’s centrist wing.
(This trend, I hasten to say, does not include President Obama and the [...]