Earlier this fall, I met with Mike McWherter for an hour or so of discussion about the campaign for governor, and how he intends to address some of the challenges facing Tennesseans. As that conversation drew to a close, I...
I heard this report on NPR on the way home from work. Religious extremism & psychosis were tops on my initial guesses about motivation, but I have had a hard time understanding how Hasan was allowed to slip through the...
Story #1This morning when I came into school I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. At first I thought it was probably a lizard-type thing, but upon closer inspection (to close!) I realized it was a...
Sesame Street, whose opening theme song and cast of characters are familiar to generations of children, is turning 40. The show premiered on November 10, 1969. A fitting tribute to the show's mission is a recent study that found teens who watched...
Today I wandered with my three little ones through the graveyard. The sky was a pensive bluish-grey that leaves you with a feeling maybe a storm is near. The wind was sending what's left on the trees sailing toward...
It’s been nearly three years since the first new studio album from Switchfoot, but Hello Hurricane finally came out this week. They’ve been busy touring, recording, dropping their record label, and working on side projects. Frontman Jon Foreman released a...
My friend is a photographer. His web-site is michaelholbrook.net, but not much of his work is on it yet. He showed me this recent photo he made of his daughter with a butterfly that must be worth a...
Unfortunately, I can't find an ungated version of Buchanan's paper, but Don Boudreaux, a professor of mine, included a synopsis a while ago on Cafe Hayek: My colleague Jim Buchanan has a new article entitled "Afraid to be Free: Dependency as...
Because students like NCSU's Jake Goldbas write student newspaper articles like this, in the North Carolina State University student paper, The Technician. Because when he says, "In fact, every time I have been to the library, I’ve made my life...
Out of Office Reply installation at green|spaces. Photo by John Hawbaker.
Yellow police tape blocks the entrance. Slogans like “Good night, don’t let the petrochemicals bite” and “Work is killing you” adorn the doors and windows. If the new art installation...
Have you ever thought about how much more time is spent preparing a Thanksgiving spread and cleaning up afterward, than sitting at the table and eating it?
What if I offered you a remedy of amazing proportion to hold your...
Here are a few things I’ve run across today:
Both on and offline, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my weight loss. How did I do it? What did I give up? Did I follow a program? Do I...
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