Backpacks
I was thinking about backpacks just the other day. My three kids all had to have them to start kindergarten. It’s required. I already knew that they were pretty much ubiquitous these days, but… I was...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary!
On this day nine years ago, we were on our way from Fresno to Las Vegas, arriving late in the afternoon at the Luxor. After checking in, we searched for the place where you pay the government for the...
View ArticleTalking About Basic Nonsense
The often sensible if excessively socially conservative John Hawkins has a bizarre piece at Townhall.com that I just can’t resist going through. It’s long, twenty points, and that may be part of its...
View ArticleHappy Lawsuit to You
I have always wondered about the absurd length and convoluted background of the lucrative copyright on the simple little “happy birthday” song. Now someone is out to prove the copyright invalid on...
View ArticleEntitlement
I’ve been thinking about entitlement as a personal and moral trait that can overlap political beliefs, and relate to the government plural of the same word. Whether you have been raised to it or come...
View ArticleHaunting the Dead
I say we haunt the dead because that was a lot of good blood spilt for what we have now as a nation. I believe every one of those dead, north and south, would be disgusted with us.
View ArticleStarnesville
Ayn Rand was prescient, or at least capable of logical extrapolation. Perhaps she didn’t have Detroit in mind exactly, but she knew what could happen.
View ArticleFourth Amendment Win, Sort Of
Remember the guy who went through airport screening with the 4th Amendment written on his naked torso? This naturally resulted in grief from our airport overlords, the low-paid, low-intelligence,...
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Better Than The Nolan Chart
My first thought was that this makes glaring the limited difference between typical republicans (conservatives) and typical democrats (liberals). This is from Liberty’s Torch. My second thoughts...
View ArticleVisual Death
Nope, not a bad web design. An infographic on 20th century death causes. Fascinating stuff.
View ArticleSprechen Sie Deutch?
There are 21 counties in America where a substantial number speak German at home, which I agree is more fascinating than the amazing number where that is true of Spanish. The real story lies in where,...
View ArticleThe Terrorists
They have won. I could say much about this anniversary, but it’s becoming sadder every year, and not for the people who died on, since, or on the new and nefarious 9/11 in 2012 in Libya. Yes, I will...
View ArticleThinking
I was getting ready to start this post and happened upon this one, in which Julie says one of the things I have been thinking, but in fewer words than I might have achieved. I have worried about...
View ArticleCollected Links
I have been bookmarking things on the idea I would post about them. You’d think posting, say, five days a week would be easy, right? The set is huge, some are probably quite stale, and I am not sure...
View ArticleMassachusetts
Massachusetts! Yes, Massachusetts gave you Scott Brown to defeat Obamacare, President Obama, Harry Reid, et al. It was a clear indicator from a state often called “the bluest of blue” (which I might...
View ArticleCivl Rights
“Civil Rights” are those enshrined in the Constitution. What do you call it when you’re agitating to get a new right explicitly recognized that is not already enshrined? Or are they all enshrined...
View ArticleMaps!
When I first saw 40 maps that explain the world, I spent a solid hour poring over them. I love maps, geography, history, random trivia, and any time things aren’t precisely as you might expect. Well,...
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