My uncle died this weekend in a senseless auto-versus-bicycle collision. His funeral is Thursday, in Wisconsin. I truly do thank you my Readers in advance for your sympathies. But I do not write today to seek sympathy for the loss. I… Continue Reading
Well, it’s one part bookstore and one part coffeeshop. A competing chain of B&N. I come here because, aside from Starbucks and convenient stores, it is the only place in Redstone where I can get frou-frou coffee after 5pm. There… Continue Reading
It’s amazing to me that kindergarten remains a controversial subject, but a specimen in one of those great laboratories of governmental ideas, the state legislatures, has managed to come up with this… I went to the Department of Education and… Continue Reading
Rule #1: Shut up. Rule #2: Seriously. Shut up. Rule #3: The right time to hire a lawyer is immediately. The right time to start following your lawyer’s advice is also immediately. Rule #4: You may act contrary to your… Continue Reading
In a conversation the other day, Stillwater made the comment: Another is that culturally determined self-identity markers will continue to define preferences even as we slide down the rabbit hole. That means culturally determined self-identification markets will create labor stickiness… Continue Reading
Sheila Tone, my coblogger on Hit Coffee and a former journalist whose present legal career presently has her doing a lot of work with the disadvantaged, wrote a post on the Rolling Stone article that’s been getting a lot of… Continue Reading
It’s been a little over a decade since Walt, one of my best friends, took his life, and left an emptiness in our lives that persisted for years. I wasn’t there, but I’ve seen it happen in my dreams more… Continue Reading
Of the signers of the United States’ Declaration of Independence, ten bear a particular distinction. In order, they are: Button Gwinnett, John Morton, Philip Livingston, John Hart, George Ross, Thomas Lynch Jr., Joseph Hewes, George Taylor, and Richard Stockton. What… Continue Reading