This is the day of the week that I usually post one of Pop’s letters. Today I’ve got to give it up to my daughter Serena, who was awarded first place by the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association for their poetry contest. Here is the sonnet she submitted.
That look is clear and cold my dearest [...]
I remember as a small child going for walks along a bridal path that starts on Shepherd Road, not far from my house. The highlight of the walk was a boulder I always climbed on. At the time it seemed a massive boulder fit for a stout adventurer such as I fancied myself. The boulder [...]
At 6750′ Panhandle Gap was our highest elevation during the hike. This served as a true gap, dividing the viewshed north and south. It was the most spectacular part of our journey. More photos of Panhandle Gap can be found on my new blog about Wilderness Backpacking Trails.
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In the last entry I stated that Mark Levin focuses more of his second chapter, “Prudence and Progress,” villainizing a bogeyman he calls a Statist (read, Modern Liberal) rather than focusing on explaining his own position. I also explained what Levin’s “ordered liberty” probably means to him, based on a few sparse statements and his [...]
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Pop spent a good part of his young adulthood in New York City during the Roaring Twenties. This letter is about a return to New York City for a presentation given by my oldest brother Pete, then a reknowned mountain climber. Obviously, this return made a bit of an impact on Pop. The letter references [...]
This is the last bit of prep work before my deconstruction of the misinformation in Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. To recap, my conservative nephew suspected that there was misinformation in this book and he asked me to evaluate it a few weeks back. It did not fit into my agenda for The Middle Class Forum [...]
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On Wednesday (7/29/09) I was interviewed on an hour long radio program on WBCR, Berkshire community radio out of Great Barrington. The sound guy was listening intently in on the interview and carried on a conversation with me afterwards. He declared our government heading towards socialism, thinking that this was in agreement with everything I [...]
There’s an article in the recent Scientific American speculating on how humans will contine to evolve. The three options proposed by the article are:
1. Gradually, if hardly at all, because of the global homogenization of the species.
2. The evolution of different species, such as might occur with space travel.
3. Coevolution and dependency on machines.
The article [...]
I’ve been taking a holiday break. That will continue until this weekend, but I thought I would let you know that I finally posted the lyrics to “Balance (with three litanies).” I’ve also uploaded “Essay 8 – The Powell Cabal Primer,” the only economic essay that had not been uploaded to The Middle Class Forum.
I [...]
My car is easy to recognize in this rural town. I bought my Toyota Echo in 2000, the first year for this model. I selected this car because it had the best gas mileage of any make and model at the time; I get 43 mpg in the summer, 40 mpg in the winter. They [...]
