Bits past, present, and future
Opportunity abounds for historical perspective to triumph! At least in tiny cliques of the historically informed here and there, where the sages cluck their tongues and reiterate endlessly, “Here we go again!” I refer to presidential election politics, “of course.”
The marvelous journalistic media assure we shall have our daily presentist mixed doses of [...]
In reviewing the past I have noticed two obvious tendencies — of creation and destruction — relative to culture. One occurs when governments use power to create an ideal culture and so they oppress, repress, forbid, and otherwise restrict anything but those elements conforming to ideology. I see Russia under Stalin, Germany under [...]
This morning, Barack Obama is the nominee in a historic process that continues perhaps into the next presidential term. What to make of the Democratic primary and nomination processes?
Allison Krauss sings it well:
Don’t take me because I am faithful,
Don’t take me because I am kind.
If your heart settles on me, I’m for the taking;
Take [...]
The Crossroads Academy and V-5 Institute Board has had little help from me recently, but I haven’t “quit” either, especially when I get opportunities to meet with some of God’s good men and women. So I and mine did this past weekend at the Rominger home in Tecumseh. The occasion was filled with [...]
On the one hand, it is getting easier now to sway some people toward the view that before the Iraq War no degree of diplomacy could be too much. We are into it far enough to have many people shift their views, thinking, saying, in effect: were there no other ways to deal with [...]
In one of my blogweb associations I found the link to the National Priorities Project. At the least NPP is informative, proving interesting, even provocative reports. Yes, even information can be quite provocative. Their “cost of the Iraq war” ticker alone prompts questions, but that’s good. An informed, curious citizenry [...]