Madison on Immigration

Posted on February 25, 2025February 2, 2025 by Simon

“That part of America that has encouraged immigration has advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.” James Madison, as quoted in A Nation of Immigrants by John F Kenne... Read More

A Promise

Posted on February 13, 2025February 2, 2025 by Simon

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.” Robert W. Service in The Cremation of Sam McGee Photo is from a visit to the Bancroft Library at UCLA but near USC. The book in Latin shows a stone circl... Read More

A Pause

Posted on February 12, 2025February 2, 2025 by Simon

The world goes on, Leaving me further behind. Can we pause change. Photo is of a very large painting in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2011 Poem was written by me when I was trying to make an onli... Read More

Keeping Peace

Posted on February 3, 2025January 31, 2025 by Simon

“An overwhelming show of force often obviates the need to employ it.” Alexander Hamilton From Alexander Hamilton the excellent biography by Ron Chernow This is the first in a weekly run of... Read More

Crime 1

Posted on January 30, 2025January 27, 2025 by Simon

“Crime is a regressive tax on poor people.” The best way to fight crime is to flood the area with police. Fear of being caught deters most crime. Overfund the police and loosen up the rule... Read More

Changing Art Exhibit

Posted on January 29, 2025January 27, 2025 by Simon

I have used this cabinet for the last few years as a changing exhibit of our collections that don’t normally get enough attention. It has included glass objects, paper weights, baskets, tins, qu... Read More

Posing for Posterity

Posted on January 16, 2025January 7, 2025 by Simon

“The founders began posing for posterity, writing letters to us as much as to one another.” Joseph Ellis In Founding Brothers A great Blue Heron takes flight. Photo by one of my brothers i... Read More

Turn Signals

Posted on January 9, 2025January 7, 2025 by Simon

My hope for 2025: Everybody uses their turn signals every time they turn or change lanes. In Arizona turn signals are not used regularly at all. The excuses vary: I’m in the turn lane so its obv... Read More

Traffic

Posted on January 8, 2025January 7, 2025 by Simon

“When you are in traffic, you are also traffic.” In the immortal words of President Obama: “We are the people we have been waiting for.” Stop complaining. We are part of what w... Read More

Fighting Bureaucracy

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Simon

“And God created the Organization and gave it dominion over man.” Genesis 1, 30A, Subparagraph VIII Good luck to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their fight to reign in the Federal Bureau... Read More

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Simon Burrow

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