The Green Fairy
I just got back from a trip during which I had very limited access to the internet (hence no blogging), but during some periods of travel I did manage to…
Personal Musings
Boozy Britain
One of the many delights of living in Oxford was the experience of stepping around the splattered sidewalk vomit known among the locals as “pavement pizzas.” The crazy pub closing…
I Don’t Send Out Cards, So…..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I Don’t Send Out Cards, So…..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
What Small Minded, Mean Little People
Voluntary (for now), but ugly, very ugly The self-styled American Family Association has decided to boycott Ford Motors for …. trying to sell its products to consumers by advertising them…
Rummaging in the Family Attic
July 4, 1965: Michael Palmer (Brother), Martha Palmer (Mother), James Palmer (Brother), and me After a talk on “The Art of Persuasion” in Denver, I’m visiting my brother and sister-in-law…
Yale Free Press Interview
As a followup to my recent talk before the Yale Political Union, I was interviewed (by email) by one of the writers for the Yale Free Press, Andrew Stegmaier. (I…
More Blogging Expected; Cato University Over; Travel on Horizon
I’ve just downloaded Firefox for Mac, to replace Safari, and have found that it makes blogging much easier. (That’s one reason why I’ve not been blogging much lately; that and…
Norse Poetry
I got a couple of emails about Egil’s poems, so I thought I’d share one from Njals’s Saga that I had printed in Icelandic and English and framed as a…
Adultery Takes a Step Forward
Here Comes the Groom’s Boyfriend….. Here’s an interesting way in which recognizing the right of gay people to marry has advanced the rights of straight people. In Canada, now that…