Mr. Ceaser (below) rightly took me to task for appearing to diss MAXWELL HOUSE. There’s nothing trivial about the effort that was required to bring a decent cup of coffee into the home every American. And if you go to a church supper here in the South, the first taste reveals with crystal . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been asked in repeated communications to post a few more photos from my recent short R and R to Pescadero. It only takes one, if that! So, here is an encore:These were some of the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen:A pumping station in the wetlands that has seen better days:This mini . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama spoke at Notre Dame today, an invitation that created divisions within the Catholic Church that are beyond our scope or concern here. But in reading about the president’s speech, I was reminded of how adept Obama is in saying one thing while doing just the opposite; such as . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette and I needed to get away and relax: So, we escaped to a coast town south of San Francisco called Pescadero for a night of Bed and Breakfast. I have a new camera, so I thought I’d see what it could do. Here are a few of the pics with which I am most pleased. I hope you are . . . . Continue Reading »
The Oklahoma Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story : Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House . . . . Continue Reading »
Oklahoma’s Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story:Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House Bill . . . . Continue Reading »
Oklahoma’s Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story : Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House Bill . . . . Continue Reading »
One line of commentary on my last post is deeply disconcerting. Three of our fellow bloggers on the postmodern conservative website have launched a scandalous attack on Maxwell House, mocking the American company which, until Folgers came on to the scene, was the number one producer of coffee in . . . . Continue Reading »
One thing that’s always unfashionable is pessimism about the Power of Love. I touched a bit on love yesterday, and I see today that Daniel did the same a few days before that — in the context of another go against our love-projecting cosmopolitans. Where the cosmops would seek, . . . . Continue Reading »
It is generally accepted by both the left and the right that science itself is a morally neutral enterprise, since it merely creates the mechanisms of power that can be used for moral and immoral purposes alike. In a public speech a few years ago, President Bush expressed this commonly-held view, . . . . Continue Reading »
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