Personal Notes
{Nota Bene: Two years ago I wrote this post offering some thoughts from soldiers and others concerning spending Christmas at war. I still believe it to be relevant today. Merry Christmas.} With the current confluence of Christmas and our nation at war, I think it appropriate to mention a few noteworthy writings that deal with…
Yesterday we went to see the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, based on Christopher Gardner’s book of the same name. I didn’t know anything about the movie before viewing it or know anything about Gardner until the end of the movie, including that it was based on his life story. Today, I found this interview…
Today is Arlene Violet’s last day on 920 WHJJ. I had the pleasure of being on her show a number of times in the last year or so – to discuss education issues – and I want to thank her for her graciousness to me during those times. Thanks, Arlene, for the last 16 years…
I just discovered that the leaders of the union to which I once belonged were indicted under RICO in September and that their trial is underway. Michael and Robert McKay have been living on borrowed time. Respectively, president and treasurer-secretary of the American Maritime Officers, the McKay brothers, aged 59 and 56, rigged elections, stole…
As occurred last February during a previous cleanup, another cleanup now allows me to pass along an excerpt from an article and two other quotes which I discovered during tonight’s effort: Patti Davis, President Reagan’s daughter, wrote A Daughter’s Remembrance: The Gemstones of Our Years on the occasion of his death in 2004: …My father…
Business travel last week took me to Los Angeles for the first time in years. My flight landed past midnight and I immediately turned on KLOS 95.5 FM (more here) after getting into the rental car – only to hear Jim Ladd was the disc jockey: [Ladd]…is the last remaining freeform rock DJ in United…
Over on Dust in the Light: “A Life Begins” offers some explanation for my relative lack of literary activity in recent months.
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! I am fortunate to have a great Dad, about whom I wrote this last year. He is still going strong one year later. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! National Review Online has several interesting articles on the role of fathers: Indispensable: Fathers and their day The Father…
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! I am fortunate to have a great Dad, about whom I wrote this last year. He is still going strong one year later. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! National Review Online has several interesting articles on the role of fathers: Indispensable: Fathers and their day The Father…
Don Boudreaux guides us to a thoroughly enjoyable article entitled The Secret of George Mason: What its Final Four basketball team and its unusual economics department have in common.
