September 27, 2012 Maxim
"Dependency doesn't encourage gratitude but it causes resentment." Peggy Noonan WSJ...
Tag: Politics
Friday Politics
I promise to only do politics once a week and never on Facebook (almost) My bumper sticker contribution: My...
September 20, 2012 Maxim
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading." Attributed to Thomas...
The Romans
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting...
To Be Young Again
Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 "If you weren't liberal when you were young, you have...
September 13, 2012 Maxim
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US...
Free Ice Cream
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was...
The Harvest
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
Simon Says Postcards 09/05/2012
The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi's 12 years (1933 - 1945)...
The Dead Horse Theory
The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
