There are some hundred billion galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred billion stars… ten billion trillion.  In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet?
-Carl Sagan

There is no greater “drug free” reality shift then experiencing your first UFO sighting.  Mine was back in 2003.  A reassuring voice was sensed inside my head that calmly said “go outside, go outside” and so I did.  It was in the evening an hour or so after …

[reprinted from  an 11/7 edition of the JH Weekly, letters to the editor]

“Where’s the 757 in these 9/11 photos?  Anyone, anyone, anyone…”

When the empirical Dark Lords of the Bush and Bin Laden regimes began choreographing 9/11 they failed to foresee a fateful flaw in their sinister plans to wage their soul-less, profit driven war.  This would be the emergence of the Internet and a cultural phenomenon called Youtube.com.

The reptilian Republicans assumed that their “shock and awe” strategies would sweep panic and fear over the American people, while the blaringly obvious …

While out on the open road, I like to take occasional musical breaks from my ipod and explore the radio waves.  Of particular interest are the evangelical Christian stations that always seem to be present in the lonely stretches of country side.

There are reoccurring themes I find fascinating.  It baffles me how someone can die for your sins.  This defies common and karmic sense, but if repeated endlessly seems to somehow have deluded significant portions of our population.

It’s also disturbs me how readily “thou shalt not kill” is ignored as …

“It’s true we’ll make a brighter day, just you and me” -Michael Jackson

The industry of health care has become a more powerful force then our government is able to manage. The business behind medicine overwhelms any real chance for Change. Hope has been lost.

It’s time we come to terms with of our corrupt and incestuous government where far too many politicians are merely pirates for corporate profiteering. Expecting improvements in health care from DC is delusional. Just ask your doctor and watch them nod their head in dismay.

It …

It’s seems all to clear in these Orwellian times that significant improvements in improving social services for “we the people” are slim. Bipartisan bickering between parties has become an endless tug of war. Now is the time, exploiting readily available technology, to make a logical leap in American consciousness. If we drop the rope and engage our progressive gears then a new world of abundance for all awaits.

Imagine individuals and corporations coming forward to slowly, but surely wind down this mindless rat race that we were …

“It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I’m wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right… Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”

-Frank Zappa
The 8th anniversary of 9/11 has come and gone and not a murmur about re-opening investigations into the over whelming evidence indicating it was an intentionally planned attack against our own people, by our own government. It is therefore important to realize that a …

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-The people and places included in this issue are the verybest of Jackson Hole . . . at least for now. Next year, you might vote for completely different “winners”in completely different categories. Our editorial picks might be the result of a thoughtful and deliberate consensus, rather than the ephemeral musings ofindividual contributors. Who knows!
Clearly, the process is not perfect – we’ve done our bestto scold and undo ballot stuffers – however, we think that the point of a BestOf issue is less to give a reading of …