Did you know that Bayer synthesized and named heroin (then Heroin) barely more than 100 years ago? “The Sedative for Coughs,” it was. You could run down to the drugstore and buy a little 5-gram bottle of it. Can you imagine the disaster that would be today? (I actually think said disaster is anything but … Read more
I don’t think I’d care for Barack Obama to win the presidency. He has far too much interest in making the government larger. On that topic, I loved this turn by John Derbyshire today: (Ron) Paul remains the only candidate talking about limited constitutional government. The others are all: “I’ll make the federal government do … Read more
Folks, I’m more than a little pissed. I really thought we had something together. Our pact in celebratory exterior illumination was unspoken, but unshakable. All of us in this part of the neighborhood lit up our houses sometime during the first week of December, and we all kept them lit through New Year’s Eve. You … Read more