Final game
Final football game of the season tonight. Gorgeous evening, nice farmland
background. On evenings like that, you're glad to be a rural dweller.
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Eric Scheske
From the Notebooks
A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America,
the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The
opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as
blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so
Tuesday
Ignorant of Theophilus?
"There's more to sports than winning." "It's not about winning and losing."
"Winning isn't the most important thing."
Those types of platitudes surround sports today, especially youth sports. And I
have to admit:
I don&
Cool Monday
Coolidge for President!
I liked Reagan alright, but I wouldn't say he was truly conservative. To find a
truly conservative president, you have to journey all the way back to the 1920s.
And no, I'm not talking about Hoover. Not at all. The man was far
Something for Sunday Morning
"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and
happier."
Mother Teresa
Brews You Can Use
Cheers
My favorite TV show of all time: Cheers. Seinfeld also contends for the top
spot, but I think I give the nod to Cheers (I thought The Office would give both
of them a run, but it has quickly grown old and politically-correct).
Cheers, of course, was set in
Fall Colors
Niall
Paul Krugman's bane, Niall Ferguson, is pretty daggone pessimistic about the
U.S. future. Ferguson is one of the most-intelligent, yet common sensical,
thinkers on the scene today . . . and he's an outsider (from the UK) and
historian, so he might be a bit more objective.
Weekend pics
Preying (sp?) Mantis in our garden last weekend.
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Tuesday
Greenspan Repenting?
After inflating the monetary supply relentlessly and serving as the minion of DC
and Wall Street masters, the former gold-standard proponent and Ayn Rand
devotee
Alan Greenspan [http://www.adabyron.net/taemag_com_greenspan.htm] has been
making more sense lately. He was recently quoted as saying, “If
Monday
Breitbart
Who is ACORN's scourge, the lion of the online right, Andrew Breitbart? He's 40,
went to Tulane, grew up in Hollywood, worked for Drudge, knows Huffington, had a
conservative awakening when he was 22, and hates the relentless left-wing bias
of the MSM. The Wall