woody's world

The Story: In 1964 or so, my colleague Fred spotted a nesting colony of a recent arrival to the area called the Smooth-billed Ani. A small f...

There are only a few basic strong drives in humans: reproduction, eating and surviving are the top three. Let’s see. Hmmm. What if you deny...

Sal and I were sitting in an “Irish” pub in DC, having a pint of IPA, watching people and chilling. We decided that life is, indeed, a Caba...

Yep. NPR again. Sometimes I don't know what I would do without the eclectic content of NPR. I was listening to Michell Martin's prog...

The house passed the health overhaul. Amid shouts of “faggot”, “nigger”, “baby killer” and others. The tea baggers unleashed a zealous repet...

" Bret Baier's Obama Interview Ratings High ": headline from the Huffington Post. I heard about the interview so caught it on ...

Prediction: The government of Florida will screw things up so badly that a wholesale change in the Governor's Office, the House and the ...

Matthew 7: 1-5 (KJV) (Thanks Austin) Judging in the jurisprudence sense is the issue here. But, if you do presume to Judge, you better be p...

Just got back from a great vacation in Oregon, and a few tales are coming from there. Here is one. We were drinking a nice beer and listeni...

I am the voice of Fire. I tell this tale because it is time. In the early days, men huddled cold and frightened in the dark. One day I offe...