Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m a teetotaler. I don’t like the way alcohol tastes and I like even less the way it makes me feel. I do, however, consider a good red wine an essential ingredient when I’m cooking. I seldom need to buy cooking wine because the occasional gift is enough to replenish my
Continue readingLately, I keep finding the word “moron” on my lips. I know I’m not the smartest person out there but it seems that, with ever greater frequency, I find myself swimming in a sea of other people’s stupidity. Unsurprisingly given my ideological bent, I’m more aware of the stupidity on the
Continue readingBeany's Drive Thru – Long Beach, California – 1952-53 from Win Edson on Vimeo.
Continue readingI have been to several American military cemeteries in Western Europe. They are deeply moving places, because they shelter the bones of Americans who died far from home, defending the freedoms of people other than themselves. The following email therefore resonated very strongly with me: In alphabetical order 1. The American
Continue readingBefore this summer’s trip, my exposure to the American South had been extremely limited. I’d been to Washington, D.C., and I’d visited Florida and lived in Texas — both of which are technically a part of the Confederacy but are, because of their unique cultures, are rather sui generis when
Continue readingMy friend Wolf Howling, who is probably one of the best educated people in America about the American Revolution, has put together a marvelously lean and informative post about the colonists’s decision to part ways with Britain, including an annotated Declaration of Independence explaining the particular grievances to which the
Continue readingWhen I moved to Marin County almost two decades ago, one of the things that charmed me was its small town approach to the 4th of July. Each community had (and still has) a 4th of July parade showcasing local organizations, there’s a big county fair with fireworks, and people
Continue readingSomehow it seems appropriate to note here that 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin, turned out to hear Bernie Sanders speak. Please remind me why Americans, who have voted for Obama twice, aren’t stupid enough now to sweep Sanders into office. Otherwise I fear I’ll go all Victorian and fall into
Continue readingHey, all! I’m back . . . finally. Our trip was great, and I’ll have more to say about it (or at least one part of it) later. Because I have legal work awaiting my attention, though, I can’t really write at length. I therefore just wanted to say something briefly
Continue readingThis is not meant to be a whiny post (except when it comes to the bag bans, which still make me see red every time I go shopping). It’s just meant to be an observation about declines in life quality over the course of my middle-aged life. When I grew
Continue readingAs part of the promotion for his new movie, America, D’Souza did a little cut-and-paste on the interview that Barack Obama did with Zach Galifinakis. It’s fairly amusing. What interested me more was the very last part of the video, which has a preview of America. I have to say
Continue readingA friend sent me this great Facebook post: A Country Founded by Geniuses, but Run by Democrats If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by
Continue readingLast night, we went to see the American Conservative Conservatory Theater’s production of 1776 — The Musical. It was a lovely production, with almost uniformly strong performances. 1776 hit Broadway in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war and one year into Nixon’s first term. Although ostensibly meant to
Continue readingSo far, despite the efforts of some people who will go nameless in this post, we continue to be blessed to live in the United States of America. Despite the constant nibbling away at the edges, we are still a land of free, brave, and prosperous people, and we can
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