Archive for the ‘Food For Thought’ Category
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
My good friend, Mario Burgos, down in New Mexico has a little quiz for you.
A teaser:
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer...
There are more hints, but you'll have to click on over to find the answer.
Posted in Dextra, Food For Thought, National | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Do yourself a favor, and read this from the state's best concrete blogger.
Well said, sir. Well said.
Posted in Blogosphere, Edjimicayshun, Family, Food For Thought | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
I have a friend (which may surprise you), who works for a random newspaper between the Mississippi River and an ocean. He's been following the Climate Change posts, and has some points, which I think are worth throwing out there. With his permission, I'm sharing parts of ...
Posted in Food For Thought, Montana | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
(H/T: Some other Montana guy)
Posted in Family, Food For Thought | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 11th, 2008
This is an interesting article on how we assess risk, compared to what the risk actually is.
Posted in Food For Thought | 4 Comments »
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Here are just some bullet points -- one-liners, if you will -- that have been bouncing around in my cruller as of late:
Has anyone had success with pithy blog entries? Anyone?
Lots of folks drag out Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about liberty and safety, especially as regards things like the ...
Posted in Blogosphere, Food For Thought, Montana, Navel-gazing, Rant | 21 Comments »
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
This can probably be taken a dozen different ways. Take what you will from it, and make of it what you will.
Once upon a time, there was a small town nestled in the mountains. The people who lived there were, by and large, simple. Which isn't to ...
Posted in Blogosphere, Food For Thought, Montana, National, Navel-gazing, Rant, Wacky Left, Wacky Right | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The Office of the USDA Chief Economist has just issued "USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2016" that provides long-run (10-year) baseline projections for the agricultural sector through 2016. Projections in this 116 page report cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm income ...
Posted in Econ, Food For Thought, Montana, National | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
One of the things I disliked about being an English major was the way we were trained to dissect works 6 ways from Sunday.
As Freud famously observed, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
And sometimes, a poem can move you in a way you can't exactly describe.
I always liked Richard ...
Posted in Food For Thought, J. Random User | 1 Comment »
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
For a truly scary and very important read about what is happening in Europe see "Eurabian Nights: A Horror Travelogue" from the December issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
Posted in Food For Thought, General, Montana, War on Terror | 1 Comment »
Monday, December 18th, 2006
Why is public education sacrosanct?
Specifically, why does any criticism of the current system brand one as anti-education?
Posted in Edjimicayshun, Food For Thought | 49 Comments »
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
In an ongoing effort to ease race tensions, a professor notes that only whitey is inherently racist. . .
Professor Jack Dovidio of the University of Connecticut, who has researched racism for more than 30 years, estimates up to 80 percent of white Americans have racist feelings they may not even ...
Posted in Food For Thought, Wacky Left, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations (the technique is called a "roving bug").
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Food For Thought, General, Misc, Montana, National | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
You wanna know how you do it? Here's how. They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do ...
Posted in Food For Thought, J. Random User | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 4th, 2006
I don't know that this has actually happened, but it's not that difficult to imagine.
(Heck, it's easy if you try.)
Dextra: Seems to me that there an awful lot of misogyny and violence in Islam. I'm not entirely convinced it's a "religion of peace."
Sinestra: Hey, now! That's ...
Posted in Food For Thought | 44 Comments »
