Our Persisting Memories

I'm going to post this in it's entirety. You can find the full article at Lew Rockwell dot Com , but I believe it needs to be available in it's entirety here as well, because I so strongly echo his sentiments. Imagine that you are blindfolded and told that the food you are about to eat is ice cream. It turns out to be chicken liver. Or imagine that you think you are diving into warm water but instead it turns out to be near-freezing. This is pretty much what it is like to be governed by Republicans, and there is no better case in point than George W. Bush. He, like all Republicans since the 1920s, campaigned as a shrink-the-government man. More incredibly to recall, he blasted the "nation-building" of Bill Clinton and insisted that the US needed a "humble" foreign policy. What we got instead is, well, what we got, is the polar opposite. The man who wailed over Bill Clinton’s big government has made Clinton’s spending record look great by comparison. The...

If the only pre-requisite to being a toddler is toddling, then we have a toddler in our midst. As of Feb 18th Sophia can walk on her own. Not just take a few steps, but stand up in the middle of a room and walk for as long as she cares to. She's quite pleased with herself and moreso her ability to access trouble at an ever increasing speed. We'll have some more pictures up soon to document the occasion.

This weeks Top Gear featured the boys puchasing a sub $1k car and driving from Florida to New Orleans. Let's stop and think about this for a moment: deep South, cheap cars, middle of Summer, and the most backwards area of the US. It ends up being a recipe for hilarity. I honestly feared for their lives as they were running from an angry mob of rednecks in Alabama. I know some Americans might get a little bent out of shape because of the ribbing he gives us, but you have to remember Clarkson has nicknamed Hamster "Diana" because they both crashed at high speed, believes German auto makers fan-belts should last "for 1,000 years," and is basically a loudmouth who happens to be absolutely hilarious. Despite criticism, they continue to film in the US and speak glowingly of the z06 and Ford GT. The point is that he was actually very nice considering the "southern hospitality" he received at that gas-station. If you stop and think about it however, you ...

I regularly read Orson Scott Card's columns at the Ornery American and Hatrack River . I have fundamental differences with his beliefs on government and the Iraq war. I am fundamentally minarchist in nature, whereas Card seems to lie firmly in the Joseph Lieberman Democrat camp. If you don't follow politics or political beliefs very much just know that we are, in essence, opposites. You know... I had a long diatribe ready to refute individual points and point out the inconsistencies in his belief in the current war in Iraq, but I'm tired of fighting over table scraps and cliches thrown about by anyone in the political game. The modern search for a headline or website post title has cut the legs out from under anyone wishing to portray a true opinion on the current happenings in our world. I respect Card as a writer even though he has a penchant for controversy and is typically dismissive of anything that doesn't fit within his viewpoint of literature or political...