Author: Don Quixote

Sadie strikes again (thank you Sadie!) with another excellent topic suggestion, asking each of us as the new year begins to look back to the best and worst moments of last year and forward to predict the best and the worst of the year to come. I’ll start.  On a

Sadie has another good suggestion: “Need another topic..here’s one.  Anyone else notice the cost of gas and food lately. The food doesn’t get to the shelves by magic wand or windmills. The rise in the cost of a barrel effects everything and everyone. “Five dollars per gallon of gas by

Well, actually, a whole newspaper full of it!

In response to my question about what you would like to talk about, Sadie made this suggestion: “How about a PSA to ‘welcome the new and old/er’. I think many of us have taken care of aging parents with love and kindness, but we’re also taking care of current and

This really is a continuation of yesterday’s post and a new topic in one.  The comments to that post indicate a concensus that “one world government” is a Utopian pipe dream.  Some commenters even suggested that it was desirable to have many smaller countries.  Okay, but we do have the

I’ve been reading with great interest the 1949 edition of The Outline of History, written mostly (except for the WWII part) by H.G. Wells.  The book provides a nice perspective of the socialist mind in the first half of the last century.  To his credit, Wells makes no pretense of

We’ve got another week until Bookworm gets back.  I’ve got a topic I want to write up tonight and a few others in mind, but I’m curious.  What would you all like to talk about?

This article caught my eye.  The view of the future it presents does sound like science fiction, but, of course, most of our current technology was science fiction 50 years ago.  This is interesting in it’s own right, but it also got me thinking about the conservative and progressive reaction to progress. 

It’s Christmas morning as I write this and I hope you all are having a lovely Christmas.  Perhaps the way to celebrate in the Bookwormroom is to share Christmas stories.  I don’t have much to share myself, but I do have one and my wife has a better one, so

I echo Danny’s Merry Christmas to you all!  Perhaps because it is Christmas Eve, I don’t feel like blogging on anything serious today.  Still, there is one problem President Obama promised during his campaign that he would fix that he has made no progress on at all. Indeed, I fear

. . . but if you are a football fan or just enjoy complete silliness, check out Mike and Mike’s Stone Cold Lead Pipe Locks (something Bookworm herself would never post here).

At a minimum, Pat Robertson is calling for lower penalties for people who smoke marijuana.  I quite agree, but then I’ve been for legalization of  marijuana forever.  Anyway, what do you think, both about Roberton’s comments specifically, and about how our society should deal with drug (and alcohol) use generally?

For months, I’ve noticed the growing number in the box to the side that counts Islamist terrorist attacks.  However, I’ve never before checked out the site that counter comes from — TheReligionOfPeace.com.  It is an awesome site, which I recommend you check out. I was especially taken by the following

I mentioned yesterday that I’ve been reading up on Judaism.  The history of that religion is filled to the brim with prejudice and persecution.  I think it would be hard being Jewish and coming to trust even that my Gentile friends were free of that prejudice.  This history may explain why,

The Daily Beast ranked the top “Grinchiest” cities.  Is it any surprise that four of the top 15 were California cities and that number 1 was Boston, Mass.?