L’Shana Tova
This weekend is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. I'd like to wish a happy and sweet new year to all. "L'shana...
Author: Simon
Irving Kristol RIP
If you want economic growth and greater affluence for all, there is simply no alternative to "trickle-down...
Surviving the Recession
My friend Paul D. offers this example of the type of creative thinking necessary to survive the recession: Paul's...
September 17, 2009 Maxim
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston...
The Dalai Lama, another view
News that President Obama has said that he might meet with the Dalai Lama reminded me of an analogy I made years...
The Big Bamboo
In 2004 eight Codger Divers went to Grand Cayman. After a hard day of diving we would go to the Big Bamboo Brew...
Tadpoles
We got home from Arizona yesterday and while cleaning out the pond filter basket I saw something wriggling. It turned...
Question of the Week 9/10/09
When President Obama wants to smoke does he have to stand outside the White House? Thanks to the Smoke Blog for this...
September 9, 2009 Maxim
"The public in a democracy is not always wise." Peter Shuck writing in Debating Immigration Cambridge University...
The Woman's Improvement Association in South Pasadena built this watering trough in 1906. It is unclear to me...
