Broadband in the Boonies
Vis-à-vis broadband internet in rural Brown County: Even though we live only a few minutes outside of Nashville IN, we have had but one broadband internet option: ATT U-verse. No cable comes out this...
View ArticleBrown County Hour: The Foster Episode
After 7 years, 52 episodes, a couple of major fundraisers, managing a burgeoning website and more all-night engineering sessions than I can count, as of August 2016 I’ve retired my chair as founding...
View ArticleAbout this “temperament” thing
I ran across a recent meme by Occupy Democrats (the which I will not present here, one can look it up if so inclined) — a quote of an editorialist from New Zealand who stated something to the effect...
View ArticleWhy We Have The Electoral College
Thanks to my friend John Franz for posting this. To my California friends and fellow Americans: Why We Have The Electoral College We hear a cacophony of blaring and bleating from the media and the...
View ArticleHave Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – vintage Foster Jones
Scroll down to hear some vintage Foster Jones, with Frank Jones singing and Jeff Foster playing guitar, on a true Christmas classic, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. This rendition was recorded...
View ArticleFacebook to begin flagging fake news
Facebook will begin flagging fake news stories with the help of users and outside fact checkers, the company announced on Thursday, responding to a torrent of criticism over fake news during the US...
View ArticleWhat would Solomon do?
Today I find myself reminded of the old Bible story of King Solomon who, when two women came before him, both claiming to be the natural and rightful mother of a child, devised a clever way to settle...
View ArticleNo bad losers here
So, according to Occupy Dems, we've one of two choices -- either get all "terrified" by the upcoming Trump presidency, or shrug it off and be deemed a 'fool"? ... Gee, I can think of several other...
View ArticleWho Invented the Electric Guitar?
The names of Les Paul and Leo Fender grace many of the most famous electric guitars. Designed in the 1940s and ’50s, their instruments helped create the musical world of today, where the electric...
View ArticleWho of us volunteered for this?
Recently, in support of central planning and big government, a FB acquaintance of mine (IOW, we are strangers who never met in real life but nonetheless became linked as “friends” in social media)...
View ArticleIf you were an elephant … | Environment | The Guardian
You’d be a communitarian. Relationality would be everything. It’s not that you couldn’t survive alone, although there would certainly be a survival benefit from being a member of a community, just as...
View ArticleOn the national debt
Imagine it's 1913, and the fledgling Fed just printed its first federal reserve note and gave it to you, saying, "Congratulations, we hereby lend you this first-ever dollar, which you are obliged to...
View ArticleUniversity of Berkeley’s shame
Not that anyone asked my opinion but — the Berkeley riots piss me off, and here’s why. I seem to recall a time when universities were bastions of free speech, where people were encouraged to examine...
View ArticleIndiana energy bill would eliminate net metering
Indiana legislators have introduced a bill that many fear could kill the state’s solar industry by ending net metering and also essentially preventing people from using the energy from their own solar...
View ArticleWhy would Trump want to defund PBS?
A good friend of mine asked a perfectly reasonable question on Facebook: “Why does the White House want to get rid of PBS?” Since cutting loose of cable and conventional radio (except in the car), I...
View ArticleBreaking Away From the Centralized State – LewRockwell
“The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to a condition of one and the same...
View ArticleTeaching an old water boiler to cook
One typically hesitates to mention one’s own deficiencies, but in this product review I’ll make an exception. Truth is… I never learned to cook for squat. To me, hunger has always been...
View Article‘Memories Of Zagreb’ live at the Hobnob
My friend, videographer Bill Graham, sneaked into my weekly Wine-down Wednesday gig at the Hobnob in Nashville, IN one evening a couple years ago (April 1, 2015, to be exact)...
View ArticleWood Stove Project
The heart of any homestead is, of course, the wood stove. A source of heat, a place to warm food, and the visual center of the living room, the wood...
View ArticleRand Paul’s Market Based Alternative To The ACA… and why the masses don’t...
While the debate of healthcare reform has largely centered around the repeal of the ACA, there is fair criticism that Republicans have under-delivered in highlighting their plan to replace it....
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