I think #283 is the first Thursday miscellanea post to be numbered with a cubic inch displacement that is often used as a sole identifier for a well-known car engine. Several more of those to come, obviously. Wow. I remember thinking I’d never get to #100. I made this recipe for a barbecue casserole on … Read more
Nigel Lawson has an excellent piece on global warming at National Review Online this morning. Lawson’s essay properly identifies catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) as a belief system, in fact very much like a religion. The effort to demonize and marginalize global warming skeptics as “deniers” and other incendiary epithets is shameful. Consider: We have … Read more
Gasoline hit $4.499 a gallon in late spring 2008, and when it did Lea and I started talking about a small car. I was commuting in a 2002 F-150 SuperCrew pickup. It reliably swallowed NINETY DOLLARS every eight days. Every time I filled it up, I thanked God for success sufficient to afford it. I … Read more