From The “I Wish I’da Written That” Files
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Do yourself a favor, and read this from the state's best concrete blogger. Well said, sir. Well said.
Archive for the ‘Food For Thought’ Category
Do yourself a favor, and read this from the state's best concrete blogger. Well said, sir. Well said.
Blogs and Newspapers, The Next Step?
Monday, April 7th, 2008I 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 ...
This Explains A Lot
Monday, February 11th, 2008This is an interesting article on how we assess risk, compared to what the risk actually is.
[craig@mtpolitics]$ cat /dev/random
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Here 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 ...
A Parable, Kinda Sorta, or Maybe an Allegory
Sunday, February 18th, 2007This 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 ...
USDA Agricultural Projections to 2016
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007The 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 ...
For Budge
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007One 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 ...
“Eurabian Nights: A Horror Travelogue”
Saturday, December 30th, 2006For 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.
Query
Monday, December 18th, 2006Why is public education sacrosanct? Specifically, why does any criticism of the current system brand one as anti-education?
You Gotta Love This
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006In 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 ...
The “roving bug”
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006The 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").
Quotha
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006You 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 ...
Hypothetical Conversation
Monday, December 4th, 2006I 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 ...
Oh Say, Can You Swear on a Koran?
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006According to a well known Jewish commentator, Dennis Prager: "No." But, among the most reasoned of responses, Eugene Volokh covers the “how un-American†angle, beating Prager’s comments to a Constitutional pulp. For those who may not be familiar with the term Tanakh, this is an acrostic of Torah (The Law), Nevi'im (The ...
