February 2018 - ScholarDay

gun violence and mental health doesn't explain the rise in school shootings since the 1980s

The NRA Needs Pie: equating gun violence and mental health is poor taste

Alex Feb 27, 2018 Abuse, Abusive Male, Americans, Domestic Violence, Gun Control, Guns, Human Rights, Mass Shooting, Mental Health, Murder, NRA, People with mental illness, Politics, Rhetoric, Shooting, Tragedy, Violence, Violence Against Women

The gun violence and mental health script Dr. John T. Monahan sums up the gun violence and mental health script thusly: “Two things typically happen in the wake of a

A Not-haunting in Los Angeles

Eric Feb 24, 2018 California, Haunting, Hotel, Los Angeles

The Memory of Place I am confident that places keep memories just like people do. They at least think. The poet and linguist Robert Bringhurst taught at a lecture in

A Further History of Places Beyond Time: A Commercial

Eric Feb 19, 2018 Bob Dylan, Colonialism, Ed Harris, Hollywood, Music, Neocolonialism, Nicaragua, Rudy Wurlizter, The Rifles, Walker, William T. Vollmann, Winona LaDuke

If you’re looking for a legal, mind-bending way to spend 6 minutes and 30 seconds, check out Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, from 1965’s Bringing it All Back Home. If you’ve

When We Became “Welcome to Bears Ears”: A Metamorphosis

Alex Feb 16, 2018 Americans, Bears Ears National Monument, Environmental, First Peoples, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Holiday, Human Rights, Inter-Tribal Coalition, Memorial Day, Outdoor Recreation, Political Border, Politics, Road Signs, Utah, Wilderness

One morning, Eric and I woke in the desert from uneasy politics and found we had turned into a large “Welcome to Bears Ears” sign. For two days, some people

Centennial Mountains from highest peak Mount Jefferson

The Centennial Mountains: A Range Like No Other In Idaho

Alex Feb 11, 2018 Big Table Mountain, Bitterroot Mountains, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT), Environmental, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat Corridor, Hellroaring Creek Drainage, Idaho, Keystone Species, Kilgore Project, Logging, Mining, Montana, Mount Jefferson, Mountain Drainages, Natural Borders, Noise Pollution, Otis Gold, Outdoor Recreation, Peak Bagging, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Ridgeline, Rocky Mountains, Sawtell Peak, Taylor Mountain, Trumpeter Swans, Wilderness

The Centennial Mountains: Our Favorite Places’ Best Kept Secret Sure, in terms of Rocky Mountain celebrities, the Centennials are not exactly A-listers. Glacier National Park lies to the north; Yellowstone

Variations on a Bumper Sticker: Capitalism and Natural Resources

Eric Feb 09, 2018 Adam Smith, Capitalism, Cobalt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Economics, First Peoples, Jack Weatherford, Mining, Nez Perce

Variation on a Bumper Sticker There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen floating around out there. It says: “Socialism: A great idea… ’til you run out of other people’s money!” The

a man on Jefferson peak in the centennials in Idaho looking wester over most of its range on a blue sky day

Parmenides in the Centennials: A Calculus

Eric Feb 04, 2018 Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Barry Lopez, Beaverhead Mountains, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, Hiking, Kilgore Project, Leslie Marmon Silko, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Parmenides, Peak Bagging, Philosophy, Ridgeline, Scott Peak, Stanley, Targhee National Forest, Wilderness, Yell-to-Hell

Prologue and Apology It seems to me that a deductive logic system is among the colder ways to approach reality. It is the extraction of principle from physical. It is,

Kilgore Project will devastate these grizzlies

#Kill the Kilgore Project Before It Kills Our Grizzlies

Alex Feb 01, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Americans, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Leave No Trace, Mining, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, Rhetoric, Roads, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

Archived Campaign that Ended on Feb. 9, 2018. We have a more thorough and updated article for the 2021 Kilgore Project Proposal accepting comments through Feb 11, 2021. The Kilgore Project

Month: February 2018