Wildlife: Turtles are starting to share the log-in-the-lake along with the Mallards. These cold-blooded reptiles are more reliable signs of Spring than Robins.



Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Charity Alert: Child Health Site -- DO something, even if it's just clicking a mouse!

Weather: A little moisture every day, and snow sticking on the foothills just over my head.

Media Watch: I'm reading a reprint of Kingsly Amis' New Maps of Hell from 1960. It is an early critical survey of Science Fiction/Fantasy by a competent writer from outside the field. My friend Brian W. Aldiss wrote the more comprehensive Million Year Spree a decade and a half later, and revised it as Billion Year Spree in the 80's.

In The Community: Flathead Valley Community College's Honors Symposium presented Dr. John Wilkerson from the University of Washington's Political Science Department last night. He spoke on The Politics of Health Care in America. It wasn't the best lecture in the series, but it made the point that the USA spends more for HEALTHCARE than any other country in the world without having the best HEALTH in return for all that money.
He didn't say so, but I will -- The Healthcare Industry is skimming our inflated bills like a crooked casino, and paying off our politicians to keep things this way.

Next Big Thang: Peter Held's lecture on David Shaner at the Hockaday Museum of Art Thursday night at 5:30. Exhibits at the Hockaday Museum