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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Musing over the morning paper…

This has to be one of the strangest things about Texas Republicans… When health care in Texas makes headlines, the issues raised by administrators and physicians are hardly rosy. They

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Living the Good Life

CARSON, NEW MEXICO—When the wind comes up the mesa, which it often does, there is a particular rusted-out old car nearby that whispers the same eerie, long-toned question every time:

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Energy Musing

Obama is the first political figure since Carter to understand the energy efficiency and conservation approach and actually try to present it to the American people. Republicans want to nip

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