New Blogging Machine…

My new toy finally arrived from Dell yesterday…A 17″ laptop with some bells and whistles to make photo editing easier. I planned to post the first blog this morning. I

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Sebastian Mallaby – Bush’s Unhealthy Veto – washingtonpost.com

Bush the philosopher has one thing right: Human dignity is served when people make choices for themselves rather than being nannied by the government. But only simpletons suppose that this

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What do you do on a Friday in post-autumn summer?

Going through the Google Reader feeds this morning I stumbled over Dick Cavett at the Times. If you need a review of his column take this into consideration…I read all

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Weekend muses for a seasons transition.

It looks like I’ve had one of my domains phished spoofed. All morning long the spam folder has been filling up with undelivered mail receipts. Since around 5am this morning

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Political Thursday

There is a new deal floating through Washington DC. It’s called Republican Speak. Whenever a Republican does something, blocks some law, breaks some law or rule the idea is to

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Saturday morning muses at the end of summer.

I began thinking of the wordsmiths I enjoy who make their primary living working on the farm. I haven’t made it a point to search these folks out, but maybe I should. There is something about the solitude of farm work that seems to allow the wordsmiths it produces to let their words steep and age before they commit them to paper (or electronic replacements thereof).

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