Another week, another conservative politician arrested on a morals charge. Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has pleaded guilty to “disorderly conduct” for attempting to have sex with a police officer in an airport toilet. Naturally, Senator Craig is a politician devoted to family values. Naturally, Naturally, he voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment to the […]

2006 was, meteorologically speaking, the oddest year in New Mexico history. The first six months of the year were the driest on record: there was something less than an inch’s worth of rain in that entire period. The second half of the year was the wettest on record— it came down in buckets.We rejoiced. We’d […]

Last night I did a hit-and-run on Santa Fe, to see the American premiere of Tea: a Mirror of Soul, by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, who among other things scored the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.We hadn’t intended to go to Tea, but the description in the program book made it too irresistible. Since […]

Lest me just rant here for a while. About seedless watermelons, and why I hate them. They’re not seedless! The seeds are puny, but they’re there. So even calling them seedless is a misrepresentation. They should be “weeny-seeded watermelons.” They don’t taste good! They don’t taste awful, but they don’t have the full rich flavor […]