The world is so much clearer when we can divide it into us and them.  Republicans and Democrats.  Moslems and unbelievers. Christians and those going to hell.  If you can divide up your world that way, everything becomes clear.  We have the answers and they are the enemy.  This refrain echoes from deep in mankind’s [...]

August in Arkansas.  If you’ve ever experienced it you don’t want to again.   Kinda like having an out-of-touch President. But it might be useful.  Just as hard exercise hurts but may be useful.  But only if you use the experience wisely. An Arkansas August can help you appreciate the North, but won’t help those [...]

Sympathy for your enemies?  Should you wish the best for a President whose policies you adamantly oppose?  Some may call this Sympathy for the Devil.  In that song of our youth, the devil urges us to  ”have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste” and be polite. Those in power always want their suffering [...]

When a President tells NASA that its primary mission is to make Muslims feel good about their contribution to science, it’s clear why the US has fallen so far in science and technology.    This is the type of patronizing psychobabble that only an affirmative action baby could truly believe in. The boss of the [...]

Needing some new puppies, we’re driving down to Sheridan.  It’s a pleasant drive.  First you go through the flat, fertile bottomlands of the Mississippi River.  Then, at Pine Bluff, up a little into the piney woods which stretch all the way to Houston and Port Charles, Louisiana.  We spent the trip down talking about plans [...]

America’s latest catastrophe reveals a country torn by two inadequate sets of solutions. One includes lawyers suing, criminal charges, hiding information, following politically correct rules, distrusting technology, public relations, getting big business to pay for its sins.  The other  features engineers who determine the facts, find a solution, love technology, and ignore all rules except [...]

The BP spill is not Obama’s Katrina.  It’s America’s Chernobyl.  As we learn more about the actions leading up to the spill, events in the Gulf in 2010 seem remarkably similar to the Russian nuclear chain of events in 1986.  Our lawyerly bureaucracies have engineered a disaster of Communist proportions. One thing is certain.  The [...]