Life Amid the Suicide Machines
JEFFERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. In small town America, business owners get to sponsor everything from the high school wrestling team to the "pride committee" chili...
Does the Way of Improvement Lead Home?
First, let me extend my greetings to the readers of the Front Porch Republic. I have been following conversations here at FPR since...
Sex, Eschatology, and Everyday Life
Devon, PA. I have contended that the two most vocal sources of outrage at Pope Benedict XVI's remark about the deleterious role of condoms...
How To Tie a Tie
Claremont, CA - I don't know how to tie a tie. But now I know that I am not alone.
Do this: On Google, type...
The Ad-Man Cometh (for your Children)
RINGOES, NJ. March Madness is finally over. And for the first time in years, I actively participated in the madness. For most of our...
The Greatest Forgotten Player
PHOENIX, ARIZONA. Today is opening day, and how sweet it is. But nine days from now comes the most annoying day on the Major...
Iowa… Place of the Drowsy Ones
OWEN TOWNSHIP, WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS: According to one legend, the word Iowa means "Place of the Drowsy Ones" in some extinct Indian tongue. This...
No Going Back…So Where Are We Going?
The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision. Politics is not a time machine and...
Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do...
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...
I Did Taste!
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...