The Watch

When he opened the hatch and stepped out the cold wind bit into his face but it was not as bad as he expected.  The spray from the waves was only a fine mist.  The ocean was pretty quiet compared to what it normally was, the swells were only about 3 or 4 feet and [...]

Football Recruiting From the Dark Ages

Much as changed over the years of my life including the way colleges go about recruiting football players.  I went through that process quite some time ago.  My junior year in high school I had had some modicum success.  I made second team All City and even second team All Area which was a pretty [...]

The Scorpion Bite

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The Divinity of Astronomy

You should read a good basic survey book on astronomy if you want to have a deeper understanding of your religious views, whatever they are or are not.  Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is a good starter but there are many others.  When you contemplate the real universe it will imbue you with a sense of wonder [...]

Respect the Man Not the Education

I recently read an article that echoed a belief that I have held for a number of years–that everyone is not college material.   Such a notion runs counter to our current ever so politically correct ideas that ever single child should be prepared for a college education and in fact receive one.  The real facts are [...]

A man alone

A man alone is in bad company.  Not my original words but from Paul Valery.    Not even sure I necessarily agree with the comment but it certainly does make one pause for reflection which is always a good thing.  I have long thought that Man operates within different realms of influence.  Call them spheres of [...]

tax code and history

I must start with a correction…..getting to be a real geezer…..yesterday I suggested the Writer’s Digest for your personal library.  That was a mistake.  I meant to say the Reader’s Encyclopedia.  So, with that out of the way let’s discuss the current proposals in congress to deal with the subprime situation.

 

You note if you are [...]

Bari…then and now

In early December of 1943, the Germans made a devastating air raid on the port of Bari, Italy.  That is on the Adriatic coast.   The Allies had already driven the Nazis from North Africa and Sicily and we had taken the lower third of the Italian boot.  Things were looking pretty good for us and [...]