Tuesday
The Spending Spree
Maybe I'm losing my mind, but I've gone on a small spending spree. First, I
bought all sorts of stuff for my garden, probably about $200 worth. I didn't
mind, though, because most of them were "capital" purchases that
More issues
Monday
Happy 4th! Well, Happy 4th Observance! The banks, courthouses, and post office
are closed, so it's a holiday. Consistent with past practice, blogging will be
light today. * * * * * * * Something different: Great whites seen off the
Northeast coast
[http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/coast-guard-shark-warning-
First zucchini from garden
-- Mobile post
Something for Sunday Morning
Peace "is granted only to men of good will--to those who strive with the whole
of their strength to live their lives in accordance with God's will." Francis
Fernandez
Brews You Can Use
Taking my micropolitan area by storm: Incentive Vodka
[http://www.incentivevodka.com/Main.html]. Friends say it's better than Grey
Goose, but priced just a bit cheaper.
Thursday
This 2006 op-ed from the New York Times
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05chace.html] ought to be required
reading for every prospective college student and every politician that makes
student loans available: “A Little Learning is an Expensive Thing.” It's
William Chace, a
Wednesday
Tuesday
I like to read off-the-beaten path books, as long as I have indicia that they're
reliable and good. I saw this book by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddhin
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn]: The Menace of the Herd
. I'd been
Monday
Rich Karlgaard at Forbes
[http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2010/06/the-millionaire-cop-next-door/]
points out that public sector employees make A LOT more than folks in the
private sector:
> Who are America's fastest-growing class of millionaires? They are police
officers, firefighters, teachers and
Something for Sunday Morning
"We shall ask him to help us uproot our egoism, to cure us of thinking too much
about ourselves and to eliminate from our hearts any kind of lukewarmness."
Francis Fernandez