Down Home Ranch, Barn, Down Syndrome, Texas Sunset

Is Overpopulation Killing Us?

Here’s a short piece that was in my email basket this morning  http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/note-to-malthus-life-is-good I read frequently about the dramatic decline in birth rates in Japan, Russia, across Europe and many other parts of the world. Even in places in the Middle East like Iran and the United Arab Emirates. This doesn’t mean population growth worldwide…

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New Ways of Bustin’ the Blues

The other day Kyle had a little misunderstanding with his girl.  A friend asked him if they’d worked it all out and he said yes but that he’d still felt a little bad afterwards.  “So what did you do?” asked the friend. “Well,” said Kyle, “I went back to my house and I put on…

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Reflections

Talking Past One Another

Our new website is functioning, but still a work in progress. Meanwhile, I want to note that I’ll be posting frequently on my blog, to include my own occasional ruminations as well as the science or considered opinions of others. I’ll start with a well articulated piece by a guy who is new to me,…

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History of Ranch Camp

Ranch Camp began in 1995 with two sessions: one for adults and one for teenagers. Seeing as the Ranch was just in the beginning stages, we borrowed tents and cots from the Texas National Guard, rented a few port-a-potties, got together a trusting bunch of friends and their teenaged kids, and opened for business! We…

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