Househenge

There was a moment Friday afternoon when the cosmos aligned with my pantry. Teetering on the edge of the equinox, the sun was setting perfectly due west. A broad shaft of light shot through the open back door, through the big family room and the open window between family room and kitchen, straight into the …

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More RS 2477

When I’ve written in the past about RS 2477, it’s been primarily about private property issues. Here’s an interesting RS 2477 site that deals with the issue as relates to public lands.

Obesity, Health Care Costs, and Life on the Commons

Andrew Sullivan suggests, in response to yesterday’s CDC report on obesity, that if one wants to be fat, that’s a personal choice: What’s to be done on a collective basis? I have an idea: nothing. If people want to eat themselves into misery and early death, it really isn’t anyone else’s business. Well, perhaps. Or …

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Writing v. Typing

In commenting on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Truman Capote is said to have offered, “That’s not writing. That’s typing.” Perhaps that’s my problem, Christian. I just type real fast. Keep scrolling. Nothing else to see here.