by Mike Sliwa, who blogs at Chasing a Different Carrot with his wife Karen We spent three months at the mud hut and lived to tell about it. My wife Karen and I were fortunate enough to spend most of…

Timothy Scott Bennett's novel, All of the Above, was published in August 2011. If you've been paying attention, you recognize the author's name: Bennett and his partner, Sally Erickson, put out the superb documentary film, What a Way to Go:…

by Anonymous On the street yesterday in my city I saw signs, held by people of many races, economic backgrounds and political affiliations, that said "Not In My Name" and "I Am Troy Davis". I know, without a doubt, that…

by Kathy Cumbee (bio here, at her first essay for Nature Bats Last) How many of us have been told at one time or another that we are doomers? I was thinking about that and, although it might be correct…

by Kevin Moore The most important lesson of history is that the lessons of history are not learned. The First World War was the first grand-scale industrial war in which millions of men and women died as a consequence of…