Hat tip to D.W. Sabin for the following quote from the New York Times:
“The Federal Government is about to undertake what the General Services Administration calls the largest public building project since construction of the Pentagon during World War…
April 2009
OWEN TOWNSHIP, WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS…: According to one legend, the word Iowa means “Place of the Drowsy Ones” in some extinct Indian tongue. This came to mind yesterday when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled unanimously that same-sex couples have
The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision. Politics is not a time machine and we are not ever going to travel back to whichever pre-modern, small government existence that many paleos…
The obscuring of the faith in creation is a fundamental part of what constitutes modernity.
As I survey all the perplexing shifts in the spiritual landscape of today, only these two basic models seem to me to be up for…
Wichita, Kansas. …I have a blogging (and occasional real world, actual face-to-face) friend by the name of Laura McKenna. She is funny, smart, occasionally profane, often wise, and very much a part of–and mostly a fan of–our modern, liberated, democratic
Under consideration: Michael Pollan, The Omnivor’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin (2006), 464 pages; and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Penguin (2008), 256 pages.*
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. …A few weeks ago I attended a meeting
Devon, PA.… During the last few weeks, Patrick Deneen’s posts on Front Porch Republic have drawn our attention to the near identity of the deadly vices of greed and lust. His effort has been to expose the manner
USA Today has a piece on local currencies here.
Excerpt:
“A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money.
“Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling…
Henry County, Kentucky.… What holds a community together? Or rather, what holds my community together, as I’ll have to leave you to worry about yours? I think about it some because my friend Mary Berry Smith thinks about it a lot.
Since Stewart posted a terrific video about the death of bee colonies from “TED,” I thought I’d post my own favorite from that site – a devastating and hilarious jeremiad against suburbia by James Howard Kunstler. I assume most readers…
It’s not only that the richest people are getting richer; it’s the richest places, too. And even within regions — southern California, say — rich suburbs have become wealthier and other suburbs’ fortunes have declined. “Just as the gap between rich and poor widened at the individual level,” Dreier and company note, “it widened tremendously between suburban places.” You can see this trend reflected, among other places, in that great bellwether of American life: teen cinema.
BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, NY–Now that Russell has smuggled firearms onto the porch I suppose it’s only a matter of time before the BATF calls it a “compound.” Until then, herewith, via The American Conservative, a piece on my visit to my…
John Miller asked me to write on why I love the Diamondbacks. Twenty-nine others pitch in on the rest of the league, if you’re interested, including my friends Darryl Hart and Jeff Cain, to pick two entries that are especially…
