Musing at the start of a long weekend…
I took a day off from work today…It seemed like a good investment in mental health. My wife had already scheduled the day off planning for the scheduled arrival of
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Month: August 2008
Gustav forecast….
Hurricane Rita Image by alpoma via Flickr As of this morning at 7am this was the latest on what was happening with our tropical weather As the three-year anniversary of
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The Bush America
Texas’ overall uninsured rate of 25.2 percent, and its 20.2 uninsured rate for children, continued to be the highest in the country. Nationally, the number of people without health insurance
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After the rains…
Image via Wikipedia The weather here has been very dry…at least until the past week or so. We have been having a spring-like amount of rain. After complaining for so
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Even Here The Weather Can Change…
In the midst of August, spring appears to have triumphantly — if temporarily — returned to Houston. Steady rainfall has delivered a blessed week of lower-than-normal temperatures, and Tuesday’s high
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Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits—By Wendell Berry (Harper’s Magazine)
Anything Wendell Berry writes is worth the time it takes to digest…My recommendation is to go spend some time today with the man… The general reaction to the apparent end
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Sunday morning liberal media muse…warning liberal politics ahead
This one’s for you… While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass. Their default cliché is to
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Blueberry Muses
Up on the mountain behind my house, the wild blueberries are ripe and prolific. It’s public land, part of the Maine state-park system, so the berries are free for the
