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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mexico’s Strangest Export: “Soaps” By Catherine Lancaster(From the Ojo Archives) We all know that Mexico has been striving to export as much as possible to improve its economy and its international participation in the world markets. What nobody expected is that one success story in the exporting effort would be … soap operas! Although
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Profiling Tepehua By Moonyeen KingPresident of the Board for Tepehuamoonie1935@yahoo.com Theory has it the name Chapala was derived from Chapalac, the name of the last Indigenous chief. There is also a street named after him in Tepehua very near the Tepehua Community Center. Chapala became a Municipality in 1864. The population is now more
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Such Pains! By Margie Keane At the christening party for their first born, my son, Carl and his wife, Patty, were sitting in their family room, talking with their cousins, all young couples. Listening to these new daddies, I realized that with men now allowed in the labor room, women had lost sole bragging
