Month: May 2013

"They tried to be too clever-- and that was their undoing." ---Agatha Christie The problem with hubris is that it defies reality, it's fatal flaw is that it can't acknowledge it's own limits. The arrogant believe that their ingenuity allows them to...

There are realities that do not depend on politics or elections; laws that are independent of legislation or ratification; powers above the ones we call supreme. The sun rises without permission, darkness falls unbidden to be banished again each morning...

This will not be an easy post to write, nor will it be an easy one to read. There are things that must be spoken that we would prefer not to hear; ghastly things that must be looked at that...

There's an e-mail going around with some excerpts out of the 1934 Montgomery Wards Christmas catalog. It's always fun to see what things used to cost less than a lifetime ago. A pair of shoes for two bucks, dress shirts for...