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...
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 disturbed...
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...
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 and...
Devon, PA. Most people, agrarian or otherwise, do not read poetry anymore. Ours is not merely a forgetful culture, but one that has long since ceased to approve of memory as something more than a faculty. It used to...
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...
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...
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/mar/23/00014/