Atlanta, GA May 2, 2022 Life is a continuous series of forks in the road. Some are obvious; most are opaque. But we take them all, whether we know it or not. This missive alone may take quite a few, so I hope patient readers will remain for the ride (the impatient ones are already […]
Atlanta, GA April 25, 2022 Last week, another brick fell from the wall. For twenty-four months they’d been mortared into place, two weeks at a time: shelter-in-place, social distance, stay “essential”, swab your nose, work from home, wear a mask, receive a shot, inject another one, get a booster, and follow “the science”. The masons […]
Atlanta, GA April 17, 2022 Last week was Masters’ week, which in north Georgia is usually delightful. Until yesterday, when rain rolled in, this year was no exception: clear, sunny afternoons book-ended by chilly mornings and cool nights. The birds are chirping, the azaleas flower, and Atlanta’s arboreal canopy is in seasonal blossom. Bees are […]
Atlanta, GA March 26, 2020 Since at least the Enlightenment, and perhaps back to Bacon, the wolf of politics has disguised itself as a sheep of science. It fleeces its putative shepherds by cloaking its commands in the wool of “Reason”. After the French Revolution, the exaltation of the “expert” replaced the preeminence of the […]
Atlanta, GA March 20, 2022 Well, I guess we’re never getting that hour back. Even when government does the right thing, it does the wrong thing. Last week, Senate voted to remove the ridiculous ritual of adjusting clocks. But it did so by keeping the wrong time. Starting next year….assuming the House and president agree […]
Atlanta, GA March 12, 2022 “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” – attributed to Frédéric Bastiat. Strange as it sounds, there’s a move afoot to nominate Vladimir Putin for a Nobel Prize. Not for peace. But for medicine. After two years of nonsensical and tyrannical tactics to conquer Covid by controlling us, all it […]
Atlanta, GA February 16, 2022 Like a magnate who’s never happy if another mogul has more, LeBron James always looks as if he doesn’t get the respect he thinks he deserves. Perhaps it’s petulance. Maybe it’s pride. Or potentially it’s true. But I’ve always thought, regardless his accomplishments, that LeBron desperately wants his own “flu […]
Atlanta, GA February 10, 2022 Is it finally happening? Are these the weeks…like the first stones from the Berlin Wall…that the Covid Regime began to crumble? It started when Canadian truckers started chiseling the concrete. As cracks formed and the mortar gave way, other drivers hopped in their cabs, started their engines, and plowed through. […]
Atlanta, GA February 4, 2022 Time has no beginning and history has no bound And to this verdant country they came from all around They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forest tall Built the mines, the mills, and the factories for the good of us all. – Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” […]
Atlanta, GA January 29, 2022 With the leaves gone, we see less of the trees and more of the forest. And sometimes far beyond. The last couple weeks, I’ve had more time to look. Free from the tedium of Zoom meetings, customer negotiations, and powerpoint presentations, I’ve had a chance to come up for air…and […]