Personal Notes
Business travel last week took me to Los Angeles for the first time in years. My flight landed past midnight and I immediately turned on KLOS 95.5 FM (more here) after getting into the rental car – only to hear Jim Ladd was the disc jockey: [Ladd]…is the last remaining freeform rock DJ in United…
Over on Dust in the Light: “A Life Begins” offers some explanation for my relative lack of literary activity in recent months.
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! I am fortunate to have a great Dad, about whom I wrote this last year. He is still going strong one year later. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! National Review Online has several interesting articles on the role of fathers: Indispensable: Fathers and their day The Father…
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! I am fortunate to have a great Dad, about whom I wrote this last year. He is still going strong one year later. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! National Review Online has several interesting articles on the role of fathers: Indispensable: Fathers and their day The Father…
Don Boudreaux guides us to a thoroughly enjoyable article entitled The Secret of George Mason: What its Final Four basketball team and its unusual economics department have in common.
One of those periodic clean-up efforts at home led to the discovery of some random quotes which I had been collecting. Here they are: From a description of Carroll Quigley’s The Evolution of Civilizations in the Liberty Fund Catalog: The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise…
Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has won the American League Most Valuable Player award this week. Some of us disagree strongly with his selection over David “Big Papi” Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox. Here is the best case I have read about why Ortiz deserved to win: The MVP award wasn’t about…
Sometimes things you really care about in life don’t work out as planned, even when those things are special, world-class, and deserve only the best. It hurts like hell when something like that happens. And when it does, it is hard to keep perspective. Steve Jobs gave an amazingly insightful speech last June at the…
Sometimes things you really care about in life don’t work out as planned, even when those things are special, world-class, and deserve only the best. It hurts like hell when something like that happens. And when it does, it is hard to keep perspective. Steve Jobs gave an amazingly insightful speech last June at the…
I grew up in Southern California during the 1960’s and 1970’s, a time of unbelievable sports team performance in the greater Los Angeles area. Here was the lineup: Los Angeles Rams under Coach George Allen and Chuck Knox. The Fearsome Foursome on defense. Dick Enberg was the announcer. They were consistently big regular season winners,…
