Clearly, apple trees like it when it rains a lot. All the time. We’ve had Washington State-like weather here in North Texas the last two months and the branches of my little, lone apple tree in my yard are straining under a unprecedented load of ripe fruit worthy of the state. It’s an apple tree […]
Bill Bennett (a living national treasure, in my opinion), has an important essay up over at NRO Online regarding the appalling failure of our education establishment to teach real American history.  Here’s a tidbit: McCullough is right, and it is a double tragedy: a) our children no longer know their country’s history and b) the story […]
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I love the way browsing a 35-year-old news magazine or chatting with a nonagenarian can be a sort of trip in a time machine. Another way to take such a trip is to visit the Reel Radio web site (subscription required) where you’ll find hundreds of hours of radio airchecks […]
As the last few posts will attest, there’s been a bit of travel happening recently. The most recent trip was supposed to be a quick 24-hour junket to visit a new client in Richmond, Virginia. Very simple really. Out Monday evening, home by dinnertime Tuesday evening. (Cue the devils of weather, FAA regs, and airline union rules […]
Stuck. Flight home canceled. Good times.
We went into to downtown Austin at dusk tonight for the nightly running of the bats. We joined thousands of people who stood on the Congress Street Bridge in downtown Austin and on the banks of the Colorado River to watch more than 1.5 million bats pour out from underneath the bridge that has become […]
I’m convinced that future generations will view the current feverish hype about global warming very much like we view the witch trial hysteria that gripped Salem, Massachussetts back in 1692. We view the Salem trials as both ridiculous and tragic. Regarding this current madness—the presence of Al Gore as a self-appointed savior of the world automatically covers  the ridiculous side of that […]
. . .getting my firstborn enrolled at Baylor. Thus the blogging is pretty light. So, here. Look at this:
There are far too many powerful groups in Washington with an interest in seeing the country flooded with dirt cheap labor from South of the border for the Immigration “reform” bill to be allowed to die a dignified death. 1. The Democrat party leaders correctly see the flood as a party-building exercise. It’s a way to shift […]
. . . because The History Channel is running “The History of Sex” again. And as I write, it’s sister channel, History International, is airing “Sex in War: Sex in Vietnam.” A couple of times each year History Channel puts aside it’s overviews of the Peloponnesian War and rehashes of the Titanic’s sinking (all of which I like, […]
