Not to insult your intelligence, but the second amendment comes right after the first amendment in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. The founding fathers believed that the right to bear arms was necessary to protect first amendment freedoms. They believed citizens possessed a ...
I wasn’t anti-social but as the sole giant, hairy, Iron Maiden shirt-wearing metalhead 6th grader, I was quickly singled out as the monkey with the white white stripe and picked on pretty regularly by a contingent of meat-headed kids that I quickly identified as the 8th grade jocks, th...
when I grew up in Queensland, used to be called the “Beenleigh Rum Distillery” but sometime in the recent wanky past was renamed “Beenleigh Artisan Distillery”, a move I do not consider to be a great
and how the “wall of a cellar in Cologne” attribution has been warped and distorted over the years. In thesecond post, I wrote that the earliest printed version I could find — in English — was from the July 13, 1945 edition of the Quaker publicationThe Friend, from London, ...
Open your good eye. That was my father’s code for telling us there was something we had missed. Some piece of the puzzle we had failed to see. Something we had been in too much of a hurry to take in. Even when we were on the verge of giving up and quitting, of moving on to...
the longest continually operating mill in the United States at that time. On November 30, 1995, the mill whistle blew its last time in Port Gamble. Pope & Talbot made the decision to close the mill; until its closure, the mill was the oldest continuous operating mill in North America...
As for me, how grateful I was for her today. God knew I needed a lift, and he put her in front of me and reminded me what unalloyed joy looks like; how to relate to others without overcaution. It’s contagious. On Sunday I found myself doing the same with someone, where I would...
It’s been a little more than three decades since Daniel Patrick Moynihan published his famous essay on “Defining Deviancy Down.” … If Moynihan were writing his essay today, he might have added a section about politics. In 1980, when Ronald Reagan won the presidency, it was still consider...
Later that night I would write in chicken scratch in my diary with a worn down pencil, “That was the best movie I have ever seen in my WHOLE life”. *** Whenever one of my parents would go to the White Hen on 79th street, my sister and I would shout “Get me something, okay...
Raised as a Roman Catholic without the horror or guilt. The bible was a story book. The cathedrals were beautiful settings with candle light and color that all added to my imagination aiding me in descriptive writing. “…close your eyes and write what you see…any alterations can wait until...