When I listened to the speech on the Mall by shrill and overly paranoid people who lie, manipulate, and have no integrity, generosity, or couth, here’s what I heard: My new dream can beat up your old, decrepit, and degraded dream. My new dream is more efficient for business, insensitive…
Leave a CommentMonth: August 2010
Mary, Nice to see you. I’m not much a fb user these days. I had a year and some when I was working on other things, promoting my book, and teaching. I wasted a great deal of time here. But this summer, work picked up and I was out building…
Leave a CommentDear Steve, I need your opinion as a stream and watershed restorer if you have some time: Recent green-energy emphasis in energy production is producing a movement toward developing what’s called low-impact hydroelectric projects or facilities. Mostly, these generation plants work in much the same way as the Hoover Dam,…
Leave a CommentCOME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us…
Leave a Comment“‘The important thing is to keep them pledging,’ he (Captain Black) explained to his cohorts. ‘It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not. That’s why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what ‘pledge’ and ‘allegiance’ means.’” –Joseph Heller, “The Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade,” Catch-22 Johnson…
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