Tag Archives: global warming

Hurricanes: The definition of insanity

Posted on October 5, 2022 by ends and beginnings blog

You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don’t send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, “You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we … Continue reading →

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Let’s talk about the weather

Posted on October 4, 2019 by ends and beginnings blog

“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” – Charles Dudley Warner (stolen by Mark Twain) It’s October the 4th, and where I live, in northern South Carolina, it is 97 degrees right now. Somehow I feel like that’s … Continue reading →

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Questionnaire

Posted on June 8, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry 1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to … Continue reading →

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The corruption of Trump in a nutshell

Posted on January 10, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

Maybe you have heard about this, maybe you haven’t but Trump’s henchman, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, a man whose name will become synonymous with many of this country’s greatest environmental disasters, has opened up the oceans for offshore oil drilling. The … Continue reading →

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Here today, gone tommorow

Posted on January 2, 2018 by ends and beginnings blog

“In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS … Continue reading →

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We’ve had bigger storms than this

Posted on September 19, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

“We’ve had bigger storms than this. We did have two horrific storms, epic storms. But if you go back into the ’30s and ’40s, and you go back to the ’teens, you’ll see storms that were very similar and even … Continue reading →

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Beyond global warming

Posted on August 30, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

Whether you believe in global warming or not the one thing we can all agree on is we have people living in areas they have no business living in. Taking it a step further, we have trillions of dollars invested … Continue reading →

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The two sides of a storm

Posted on June 23, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

This time last year my garden and grass were burnt to a crisp. The wonderful rains that we had in April and May simply stopped in June and didn’t begin again until September. It was as if some great hand … Continue reading →

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The universe in a pool of water

Posted on May 8, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

It was just a little wet spot. Less a bog and more a hole where some water couldn’t escape. The Davidson River was just twenty feet behind it. I imagine when the river overflowed its banks this little indention in … Continue reading →

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Was Jesus a Liberal or Conservative

Posted on March 27, 2017 by ends and beginnings blog

I was sitting in Church Sunday listening to our minister lay the ground work for his upcoming Easter sermon. I attend what many in my community view as a liberal Church. We were one of the first Churches in our … Continue reading →

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