While Dave is on hiatus, all we get are reprints. In this case, it is a good one, and echos my own thoughts:
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
One of my senators, and Wallace’s flag football buddy, John Cornyn, has a good article in National Review Online today.
This is — to put it lightly — not how our legal system is supposed to work. To the contrary, our Founding Fathers fought the Revolutionary War precisely in order to stop foreign governments from telling us what our laws say. The Declaration of Independence specifically complains that the American Revolution was justified because King George “has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws.” It was “We the People of the United States” who ordained and established a Constitution of the United States, one that includes a mechanism by which only “We the People of the United States” can change it if necessary. And of course, every federal judge and justice swears an oath to “faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me…under the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
He has introduced a resolution admonishing the Court to follow American–and in this case, Texan–law, and not that of Europeans whom we do not elect.
Adjudication without representation.
Just found a link to my site from what looks to be a new blog in Corpus Christi.
Off to Bryan for the day. Birdie gets a week off before heading out to Afghanistan, and we are meeting there for a baby shower in honor of his lovely bride. He and I and his father-in-law will sit around and try to stay out of the women’s way for a couple of hours.
No golf today. Instead, I’m doing laundry and dishes. A man’s work is never done.
I just upgraded this site from WP1.2 to WP1.5 and couldn’t have done it without Jerry’s help. Thanks, bud!
I also added a feature that some of you may find of interest. It is a comment live preview plug-in. It is now up and running. (You’re welcome, Bogey!)
Jim and I spoke about writing last night. He put together a wonderful piece on his visit to Astros’ Spring Training with other Corpus Christi media.
Writing is a craft which requires not just skill with words, but the ability to see a story in your mind and tranfer that to text. Some can write without being able to tell a story verbally, and some can spin tall tales around the campfire yet are unable to piece together a shopping list. Someone like Sam Clemens could tie the two together. Few of us reach that level.
I used to write using a grid paper pad. The spacing was just right for my handwriting, and it was more appealing to my engineer’s eye than standard ruled paper. Once complete, I would bang out the words on a typewriter (you do remember those, don’t you?) and later a computer. As I transcribed, I edited. Transition sentences. Overview paragraphs. Summary paragraphs. All that important stuff. I even used a thesaurus on occasion!
Now, I simply sit at the keyboard and pound out text. My writing has suffered. I wonder, is the blogosphere to be the undoing of great writing? I certainly don’t spend the time I should making sure my thoughts are coherent and the grammar is correct. I think I should probably begin doing so. Francis does, and his prose shows it. Jim did in his latest post.
Patience. Not one of my stronger virtues.
Well, the comments got screwed up during my upgrade to WP1.5 and reversion to 1.2.2 due to template incompatibilities. I’ll have to work on that this evening. In the interim, email any comments you might have and I’ll add them tonight.
****UPDATE****
Comments now functional again, and the v1.5 upgrade complete. Not too painful when I did it myself rather than with Fantastico. Some tweaking yet to be done, and the “Pages” and “Themes” functions will be nice–once I figure them out.
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