Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
So, last night the Cosmic Mother sent me an interesting email detailing the supposed genealogical history of her maternal grandfather. The story (which was written up in a local newspaper upon his passing, so its got some level of credibility) is that at the age of 19, in 1893, this guy pulled up stakes and [...]
When I was a kid the skates they sold at toy stores or bicycle shops all had steel wheels. They were dangerous since if you hit even the tiniest pebble, the wheel would stop dead and immediately throw you hind-end-over-teakettle across the pavement or asphalt. There is no telling how much skin I lost over [...]
When I started college at La Tech university in the autumn of 1977, just a month or so following the unexpected death of Elvis Presley, I picked “Biomedical Engineering” as my major. That lasted only as long as our first class video of a knee replacement operation, whereupon I immediately switched my major to “Physics” [...]
Back in May of 1984 I was a struggling, newly-college-graduated, part-time employee at a local bank. I had applied for a full-time position at the bank as a “manager trainee” upon obtaining my degree. At that time the bank President personally interviewed every candidate for a managerial position, so I went in to meet the [...]
30 years ago I was still in college. I worked part time at a local bank to pay the bills, tuition and books. This was during the time I drove a 1976 Gremlin. Summer was the chance for me to work full-time and save up some cash for college, and I got paid by the [...]
I probably shouldn’t post this… If I were a kid today and did something like this, I’d probably end up in jail. But what the heck… After my dad retired from the Air Force, we moved to a sleepy subdivision just outside of Barksdale Air Force Base called “Shady Grove” because it had once been [...]
One of these days I’m going to pull a George Lucas and write and direct a movie about the late 70s teenage high school scene… I have no idea how “normal” my high school social life was, but I suspect that what I thought at the time was a unique source of pain and frustration [...]
My last year in high school it snowed three inches one day. That’s more snow than our little metro area usually saw in three years. For a city without a single snowplow, that pretty much meant the city shut down entirely that morning. As it happened at that time Dadman and I both lived on [...]
To set this up I have to reveal a few things, but they are most likely things that long time readers of this blog have already figured out. Basically the fellow who goes by the moniker “Dadman” on this blog is my best friend all the way back to high school, where we met over [...]
So my oldest brother and I used to be big fishing buddies. He passed away about ten years ago in an automobile accident, but I spent more time fishing with him than probably anyone else. Especially back when we lived in northwest Louisiana and were surrounded by a dozen or so major lakes filled with [...]
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