Reflections on a Yard Sale
Yes, I confess. I used to dread our biannual church yard sales, which are always on a Saturday, but take two days to set-up. A lot of my distaste for them was the pressure of time while raising kids, the neglect of my own home and yard that would still have to be made up, [...]
Perseverance, or What’s It All About Alfie?
Sometimes I think the harder you fight the more resistance there is such that more energy is expended to accomplish the same amount. It’s like jogging 3 miles, but every time you increase your pace the wind blows back in equal proportion, so that you still only jog 3 miles, and you do it in [...]
Greeks R Us
Over the last several days there have been violent protest in Greece, including several deaths, over the spending cuts the government is proposing. From “The Wall Street Journal:” The Greeks are giving the world a good taste of their modern politics. Periclean democracy, meet Athenian mob rule: Tens of thousands are rampaging through the capital and [...]
Stimulus
Watching the stimulus grow is stimulating, but not in a good way. I feel like I am bound and gagged in an underground mafia casino watching a craps table where a gambling addict is betting with my money, going deeper and deeper into the hole, both unable to stop because of his compulsion and unconcerned [...]
Greatest Salesman in the World?
There’s a story in “The Washington Post” this morning about President Obama’s meeting with House Republicans yesterday. As the president met with House Republicans yesterday in the Capitol basement, Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) got out his BlackBerry and started to Twitter. “President Obama is speaking to House Republicans right now on Democratic stimulus bill,” he [...]
Obama, Oil and Politics as Usual
The primaries have come to NC, and I have to tell you, I never thought I’d pull for a Clinton, but if I weren’t for McCain I’d have to vote for Hillary. Obama is slick, inexperienced and elitist. He’s like one of those infuriating Sprite ™ commercials that tell you “Image is nothing” while using [...]
A Letter To My Representatives On Oil Prices
Dear Senators Burr and Dole and Representative Jones, Last week I listened on C-SPAN to the testimony of oil executives from the big five oil companies. As a father of five who is forced to drive a large van, this issue is of great concern to me. I recognize that there are things that I [...]
Reducing Families to Economics
I was just browsing the position papers at the National Youth Rights Association, where, under the topic of entertainment, they write: While we understand the need to warn viewers about the content of a show, movie or game, we feel that age-based ratings systems not only fail to do so properly, but deprive young people [...]
Thank God That I Am Not Like The (Re)publican
In Jesus’s day, publicans were often tax collectors, and Scripture lumps them in with sinners as in Mark 2: 16: “When the teachers of the Law, who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors [publicans]… ” They were despised and looked down upon as corrupt and greedy. Jesus tells The Parable [...]
Of Markets and Men
When are we going to realize that if men are not moral markets can’t be. The idea of markets, of freedom in general, are moral, but their operation will only be as moral as the people who use them. Free markets don’t make men moral; moral men make free markets. I support free markets, but [...]
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