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Saturday’s Freedom Rally was Crowded
The amount of vehicles reminded me of Rendezvous, or similarly crowded events. Cars went up the hill, out of sight from its base, filled the…
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As I Think of Garden Seeds
We have mental pictures of Plains Indians on horses – and rarely do we think of them with hoes. Still, as we approach gardening season, it may be appropriate to think of how many of the world’s crops were…
God Save the Queen
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” -Thomas Paine
As I watch Canada, thoughts go back to my undergrad days, when Trudeau was a Prime Minister – that’s Pierre, not Justin, and the protest movement as the sixties became the seventies was anti-war, not independent truckers with a Freedom Convoy. Folks were headed to Canada to dodge the draft, not to protest mask and vaccination mandates. It’s important to remember I live about 20 miles south of Canada – Canadian politics affects me. There’s a reason Eureka is occasionally called Tijuana del…
Stahl’s Early Days
Edward Stahl shared a bit about his early days – the early days of Trego and Stryker – in his writings about his time at Ant Flat . . . a time when the Ranger was expected to build his own cabin, among other things. The whole story is at npshistory.com and the following excerpts cover his time spent at Ant Flat. I was among the group at Kalispell, Montana, that took the first Civil Service examination there for Forest Ranger, in 1905. My rating placed me at the top of the eligible list, and early the following spring I…
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
I Like Maps
Projecting a globe onto a flat sheet of paper creates distortions, in the usual way (cylindrical projection), the distortions are the greatest at greater latitudes. This map includes a map of the nation’s actual area as well as showing the place in degrees of latitude and longitude- essentially, it reveals the degree of distortion in…
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Thinking Karl Marx
I suspect that today’s average leftist or socialist has left a bunch of Karl Marx’ writings unread. The big thing to remember is that Karl spent a lot of years studying capitalism, identified a lot of systemic inequities, then proposed communism as an alternative. Since the closest thing to his proposed communism at the time was the utopian socialist agenda, and utopian socialism wasn’t a major player, he didn’t have a lot of examples of the inequities that occur under socialism. I tend to look at things from a demographic perspective – and I do use Marx’ Social Conflict Paradigm. …
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