This a selection from the book Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two — the book is a collection of articles, bits and pieces from a bunch of different people. Roger Scruton is one of them (this is Roger’s web site), and he wrote this. I […]
Biking in Denver made the news and my life this week. It makes my life most days, so that’s nothing special. And the news isn’t extraordinary — it’s just a column Diane Carman wrote about the difficulties of bicycling in Denver:
Denver has the distinction of being the only city ever to decline in the national […]
Winter? Don’t care for it. Spring? Those frigid Chicago springs turned me off on the concept. Summer? Awesome. The hotter the better. Walking back from the grocer yesterday I got an thought, and I’m laying out the start of that thought here. It’s a plan called…
Awesome Summer
The first question is: What makes for an awesome […]
I made up a new game at work today. There are five elevators, and I started guessing which elevator would be the one to take me up. Or down. You have to guess before the up-button gets pressed, otherwise you could listen for the whirring of the chose elevator moving and that would be cheating. […]
I’ve lived without computer and internet at home for two weeks. I fixed the computer today, so it’s back and stuff, but the last two weeks were awesome. I’m got so much stuff done. I did the cleaning and organizing I should have done years ago, I read a lot more, I took a walk, […]
Kind of an auspicious day for a big-ten wedding anniversary, 6/6/6 and all … still, congratulations are due to Donna, Gardner and Satan. Without them I wouldn’t be where I am today.
In all seriousness, I don’t believe evil exists and I do believe love does. This frame of mind makes the world a much more […]
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