The Town Scryer

  A mahout removes the prosthetic leg from Motala, age 50, at the Friends of the Asian Elephant elephant hospital in the Mae Yao National Reserve Lampang,Thailand. Motala … Read more

I wrote the following in 2004 as the war in Iraq was spiraling out of control and there seemed precious few voices of reason. Now we are approaching … Read more

  I was born in the 50s. Mother died when I was three and I was raised by my maternal grandparents. As a result, I learned to read … Read more

      In the German city of Bonn sex workers who walk the streets must buy an all evening pass from a vending machine-ostensibly to make the … Read more

Now they’ve gone too far… Photo of raid from Wall Street Journal article linked below. “Last week, the feds apparently raided the premises of Gibson Guitar, searching for “illegal … Read more

Be seeing you. .  

  (Reuters) Germany’s Deutsche Bahn announced today that it intends to have the German rail system carbon free by 2050. “Deutsche Bahn says it wants to raise the percentage … Read more

From La Muse Verte. Link to full original source at the end. An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our … Read more

What with the economy and the abrupt end of the Aztec calendar come next December at the solstice, there’s a lot of talk about the End of the … Read more

When I was a boy learning geography, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. Even then its salinity was so high that it was … Read more