Personal Notes
Having some kind of head cold nastiness for the better part of a week has left me more befuddled than usual and less able to focus thanks to various apothecary concoctions. Here’s what I’ve been muttering about…. Apparently, Gen. Treasurer Frank Caprio is going to campaign as a right-of-center progressive. Tiger Woods has garnered a…
“What are you thankful for?” is a tough question. It’s sort of an annual version of “how are you doing?” One isn’t supposed to embark on an extended dissertation on the profundities of life, but it somehow feels as if a packaged response diminishes the courtesy of the question. “What are you thankful for?” “Oh,…
At the tail end of Friday night’s Violent Roundtable on the Matt Allen Show (the podcast of which may be found here), Matt asked Andrew, Marc, and I what we’re thankful for. I’ve always found that to be a tough question, binding me up in considerations of appropriate pithiness. Back during the dark days of…
A couple of weeks ago, a professional television journalist in Rhode Island suggested that I should pay some attention to the audio for my video blogs, especially that which I’ve collected from public meetings. I agreed of course — could not reasonably do otherwise — but there’s a difficulty that bloggers face in other ways.…
Working periodic Saturdays has its good points and its bad points. On the one hand, it provides earned income beyond what’s accounted in one’s long-term budget. On the other hand, it takes away time on which one comes to rely for other purposes. With those mixed feelings, I worked my way to the jobsite on…
Alright, there wasn’t really a fire, but since we’re talking radio, I like to imagine that there was one. Dan Yorke and I had that sort of conversation, yesterday, on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO. Those who missed it or who would like to revisit something (for kind or scurrilous reasons) can stream the whole segment (about an…
Of all the topics covered in my wide-ranging conversation with Dan Yorke, my inarticulateness on the application of principles to discrete issues is bugging me the most. My intended meaning was much broader than the ideological platform that I described. “Principles,” in my usage, was meant to indicate not only general rules of thumb, but…
While we’re keeping things light, it would seem a good time to mention something of the sort that normally ought to be ignored, but which, in this case, is so absurdly humorous that I can’t resist response. While indulging curiosity related to my recent registration with the state as a carpentry contractor, I happened upon…
Bob Walsh is currently recovering from a stroke experienced during surgery. God willing, he’ll quickly be back in full form; hopefully he’ll take the meantime as an opportunity to enjoy a break from the battlefield. (N.B. — When it comes to the comments section to this post, leave your blackjacks and billy clubs at the…
Busy as we are — and, of necessity, reluctant to sign up for long-term contracts, as for oil — we found ourselves today on the verge of an empty oil tank, with a delivery already scheduled for tomorrow. As one might expect, few of the oil companies that we called answered, others could not come…