Herding Cats

Book of the Decade

It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy. It is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler's... Read more →

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans... Read more →

Six Books for our Challenging Times

With seemingly unlimited voices shouting their message through all channels - from topical politics to how to spend our money, to how to spend other people's money, the level of volume increasing, with no simple way to sort out signal... Read more →

Memorial Day

We have given some, Some have given all Read more →

9/11

Now That The Holiday Has Passed

With the celebration over for the 4th of July and our nations birthday properly recognized, let's pause to remember that it is peace we seek. The efforts toward that peace do not start with bravado, but with solemn remembrance of... Read more →

Local Boy Rides the F-14

Rick Reilly is a Boulder son, who writes for Sports Illustrated. Here's an email/post going around attributed to him. I've re-posted for a simple reason. We work in and around aircraft and spacecraft is this class. There are simply no... Read more →

Semper Fi Mac

In the beginning was the word, and the word was God. In the beginning was God, and all else was darkness and void, and without form. So God created the heavens and the Earth. He created the sun, and the... Read more →

US Auto Industry

Every one's go some kind of comment on the current Auto Industry debacle. Some informed. Some not so. Some simple rants - informed or not. So philosophical. Some just more of the same. OK, here's mine. In my titled role... Read more →

More Silly Season

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the... Read more →

It's the Silly Season - Again

Unlike the British, we drag out the national elections until everyone (mostly) is simply worn out. The result seems to be that we become susceptible to professional messaging. Advertising works, otherwise they wouldn't spend money on it. Along the way... Read more →

Veterns Day

People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf Eternal Father (Download eternal_father.mp3) Eternal Father, strong to save,Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who biddest the mighty ocean... Read more →