Rod Dreher posts a letter from a young ‘un asking about law school and farming. Similarly, a commenter here last week asked:
I have only ever been acquainted, through my extended family, with operations of the middling lar ge (though still…
March 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_garden
The White House is getting a garden. Will this inspire millions to do the same? Will Obama pull his own weeds? Can a First Chicken Coop be far behind?…
ROCK ISLAND… Now that all public space is the exclusive property of cell-phone users and the deaf people they talk to, a jeremiad is in order, though I’m going to try to behave myself.
I am more than a little
Alexandria, VA …It has become a commonplace to observe that the thought of John Maynard Keynes is back in fashion. Keynes argued strenuously on behalf of government spending – including deficit spending – as the essential avenue toward the end
Milford, Indiana…. We’ll take what we can get. In this mysterious, sky-drenched land of contradiction–where letter jackets are still common and a tapas bar, of all things, has recently been opened (by my intrepid second cousin, to the great
Two news items of note that have recently caught my attention. The first, that China has been taking advantage of the global firesale of stuff, along with its massive cash reserves, to buy up various overseas commodities. Second, that the…
And good for Pa. State Rep. Samuel Rohrer, about whom I know nothing. Nor do I know why such a rally for states’ rights came into being. Paul doesn’t provide any details, really. But it’s hard to be anything but…
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/mar/23/00014/…
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY–Edward Abbey died twenty years ago today. A product of the perfectly named Home, Pennsylvania, son of the conjugation of a Woman’s Christian Temperance Unionist and a Wobbly farmer, Abbey was a hillbilly intellectual park ranger and fire…
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. …Everyone here seems to pretty much agree that we are in a pickle. The symptoms are there for anyone to see. The root causes are perhaps more difficult to ferret out, and may be multiple and varied.
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.… This is not an argument for intelligent design. It is, however, an argument that creation is the only scientifically acceptable explanation for the existence of the universe. I do not mean that we can use the methods
Devon, PA.… Some years ago, early in my graduate student days in South Bend, I was invited to begin an opinion column in the campus newspaper, The Observer. The invitation came from one Peter Wicks, who had
Phoenix, Arizona…. Catapulted by his inclusion on the exclusive FPR blogroll, Ross Douthat has been tabbed as a new opinion columnist for the New York Times. This is good news. For one thing, it means that for the first
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY. …Via the University Bookman, herewith my introduction to its recent special issue on Regionalism, which featured contributions from Frank Bryan, Kate Dalton, Jeff Cain, Jeremy Beer, Jesse Walker, Sockless Caleb Stegall, Steve Lewandowski, Ragtime Dan McCarthy, Jason
