Random Acts of Verbiage

Apparently Steven Den Beste thinks this is Not the End of the World. So that’s good. He has some insightful/wise/scary/harsh/needed words for the US after Obama handily won the presidency. Check it out… if you can handle it. A few snippets:
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Idealists often stub their [...]

This is a big day for our coutry and I am willing to bet that there will be a record number of people out voting today (or have already done so by absentee). Those that have read my blog before will know my political leanings and will know who I am voting for. [...]

Dave Scott saluting the flag on Apollo 15.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Independence Day celebration! And remember that our freedom isn’t free; this is a day to be thankful for all the rights we have been given!
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, [...]

Bill Whittle has two essays that you, ALL of you, need to go read right now: Seeing the Unseen Pt. 1 and Seeing the Unseen Pt. 2 (his final installment will be out some time in the near future). These essays will take time to read but you will be better of for [...]

I think this is one of my favorite post titles from Ace of Spades: An Inconvenient Energy Bill. It made me crack up, probably too much. Oh, and the content was interesting too. Everyone’s favorite environmentalist, Al Gore, apparently uses 20 times more energy than the average American at his estate in [...]

I don’t know much about Barack Obama. Just wanted to get that out there from the start. From what I have seen of him, he is a good politician. He seems (possibly like Kerry during his presidential run?) like he will say anything to anyone to get them on their side. [...]