Letter to the Editor: House Break-ins in Quemazon
BY DAVID RADEMACHERDoesn’t Los Alamos County enforce Breaking & Entering Laws or does one have to post “No Trespassing” and “No Breaking & Entering” signs to have a modicum of residential security?
I know it must be frustrating for the police when the multiple felony, armed burglars only get probation. But is this the community that we want? Just asking.
Food on the Hill: Pumpkin Turnovers
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.comIngredients:
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. Unfold each sheet of puff pastry and pinch together any tears. Cut each sheet into 4 pieces. In a small bowl, mix egg well and “paint” it on edge of the pieces. In another small bowl mix together pie filling, spices, cream and honey.
Photo by Sue Yang: Scarcity, A Good Motivator? Or, A Detriment To Our Mental Faculty?
Scarcity, A Good Motivator? Or, A Detriment To Our Mental Faculty?“I work better under pressure.” Such a sentiment resonates with many of us. Scarcity of time, more commonly known as “deadline,” forces us to focus. However, did you know that scarcity of money takes away a few IQ points? This is according to Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Schafir. You can find an excerpt from their latest book, “Scarcity Changes How We Think” on Salon.com (link below). I don’t know of what I am in such profound shortage as to change my own thinking, but this title certainly made me pause and ponder. Read More
How the Hen House Turns: Wild or Alien or What?
How the Hen House Turns: Wild or Alien or What?What if there were aliens living in our solar system ─ aliens native to our solar system, from some other world we hadn’t yet discovered? Would they be after our resources, eager to enslave us, or eat us? Would they be wild, in our sense of the word? I don’t think so. Not if they are like most wild animals on Earth, those not on the hunt, driven by hunger.
When well fed and respected, wild animals (and the wild birds I’ve known) recognize a friendly gesture ─ a peanut placed on the porch railing, a soft Read More
Letter to the Editor: Shame on Michelle Lujan Grisham
By DAREN SAVAGEShame on Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., a former resident of Los Alamos who joined all but two of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members in walking out before the parents of two of the victims killed in the Benghazi attacks testified.
Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith and Charles Woods, the father of Ty Woods, spoke after the committee questioned the heads of the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) and the Independent Panel of Best Practices.
I urge all supporters of families of those who were killed in Benghazi to voice Read More
Hannemann’s Music Corner: Puzzler
Hannemann’s Music Corner: PuzzlerJust for fun, translate the following musical terms into a phrase from a TV show.
Each term listed is a portion of the entire phrase:
– Presto
– fortissimo
– octava
– sforzando
– trill on a note above the staff
– a5 or a” (the a note above the staff), and, as a hint, below it write p<f>p
– J. W. L. W. (proper name initials).
When you think you’ve solved this, send your answer to the Los Alamos Daily Post at bjgordon@ladailypost.com.
This is the kind of thing that comes Read More
Letter to the Editor: For Those of You Angry (pro or con) at this Whole Sordid UNM-LA Affair
By BILL SELLERSThe origin of, and its guaranteed tax-seeking continuance, lays in the bad asset management policies of the Los Alamos County Council.
UNM-LA is one of many assets. Others are pure “rent-seeking”, i.e. the airport: $50-60 million in commercial value, held for less than 75 individuals & their airplanes; the golf course: $60-75 million acreage value + a new $6 million taxpayer-funded “restaurant-community center”, held for a rapidly diminished golfcourse user-census, when we badly need decent starter home sites for younger residents, etc., etc.
IMHO, Read More
