Personal Notes
One of those periodic clean-up efforts at home led to the discovery of some random quotes which I had been collecting. Here they are: From a description of Carroll Quigley’s The Evolution of Civilizations in the Liberty Fund Catalog: The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise…
Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has won the American League Most Valuable Player award this week. Some of us disagree strongly with his selection over David “Big Papi” Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox. Here is the best case I have read about why Ortiz deserved to win: The MVP award wasn’t about…
Sometimes things you really care about in life don’t work out as planned, even when those things are special, world-class, and deserve only the best. It hurts like hell when something like that happens. And when it does, it is hard to keep perspective. Steve Jobs gave an amazingly insightful speech last June at the…
Sometimes things you really care about in life don’t work out as planned, even when those things are special, world-class, and deserve only the best. It hurts like hell when something like that happens. And when it does, it is hard to keep perspective. Steve Jobs gave an amazingly insightful speech last June at the…
I grew up in Southern California during the 1960’s and 1970’s, a time of unbelievable sports team performance in the greater Los Angeles area. Here was the lineup: Los Angeles Rams under Coach George Allen and Chuck Knox. The Fearsome Foursome on defense. Dick Enberg was the announcer. They were consistently big regular season winners,…
My family just recently returned from a vacation in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. An unbelievably breathtaking experience. Among other things, we were fortunate to see grizzly and brown bears, elk, bison, osprey, deer, moose and many other animals. The physical features of both parks are simply stunning. We had the pleasure of joining…
I am fortunate to have been blessed with a wonderful Dad. And on this Father’s Day, his special day, I want to pay a special tribute to him. Dad, who turned 80 last month, grew up in the Depression years. It was kids from his high school class year of 1943 who joined the World…
If you’re interested, over at Spinning Clio I’ve posted on how a piece of historical “fact” has been misused to support the oft-used “the-Founders-weren’t-religious” argument. (Fair warning: it deals with treaty language.)
Heck, may as well pile on. . . For those of you who drop by my Ocean State Blogger site, I thought I’d prepare you for a new site design. (Nothing big, but it’s an improvement). Secondly, over at OSB I’ve announced another new “niche” blog, called Spinning Clio. Thanks!
For anybody who’s interested: now that the issue of National Review with my piece on Andrew Sullivan has slipped into the back catalogue, I’ve posted a version of my contribution over on Dust in the Light, with the title “The Foibles of Longing.”
