Month: January 2018

For January 31, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, In my next life, perhaps I’ll come back as an otolaryngologist of cranes.  Between the beak and the neck, I’d have plenty to work with. But there’s more …

For January 24, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Prometheus gave great gifts to humanity, including fire, hope, and forethought.  His generosity so pissed off Zeus that he had Prometheus chained to a rock. Every day an …

For January 17, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, Let me go a little long tonight, please. It’s a tale four centuries in the making. In 1579, Thomas Gresham—financial agent to Henry VIII and to his son Edward …

For January 10, 2018 Hi WN@TL Fans, An aria is often the high point of an opera, but malaria is often associated with low-lying land.  It’s not just the air that’s bad, it’s the mosquitoes …

For January 3, 2018   Hi WN@TL Fans, Because I grew up in northwest Illinois not too far from Galena, and because I went to school at UW-Platteville, when I think of mining in Wisconsin …