Ojo Del Lago

Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez Forget the Facts, Print the Legend!   Back in the Old West, there was a shibboleth espoused by many frontier newspaper editors which went: If the facts get in the way of a legend, print the legend, anyway! So with that disclaimer, the story goes like this … Just after

Carlota, Mexico’s Lost Empress By Morgan Bedford (From the Ojo Archives)   She had many names and titles, but the one that has gone down in history was Carlota, Empress of Mexico. The only daughter of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise, Princess of Orleans, Carlota was born near Brussels on June 7, 1840. In

The Queen Of Iceland By Judy Dykstra-Brown   Pete didn’t even come into the kitchen. He just bounded right down the steps and out the front door like he had mornings for the past month, calling back at the last possible minute, “I’m late. I’ll grab breakfast on the run. See you tonight!” He’d been

Humanity’s Last Stand The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, a Spiritual-Scientific Response By Nicanor PerlasReviewed by Lois Scoft   If the prospect of AI (Artificial Intelligence), AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and/or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) interest you at all, you need to read this book to see where mankind is headed, and how quickly. Opinions on

Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson   Bridge is a partnership game which means that we have to take 26 cards into consideration, not just the 13 in your own hand, especially when we are defending a contract. The illustrated deal provides a classic example where only one pair out of 15 East-Wests managed

SAWSHANK REMEMBERED: My Life Behind Bars By Dr. Lorin Swinehart PART I“Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”   Those dolorous words of Dante’s trailed helter-skelter across my mind as I sat at a table in the reception area of the old Ohio State Reformatory on that spring evening so many years ago. A huge

If Our Pets Could Talk By Jackie Kellum   At Lakeside you will see a wide variety of dogs on the streets. Not all street dogs need “rescuing“. So, what is a “street dog?” A simple description: a dog that lives and thrives to a degree on the street for a long time. They may