Archive for the 'Society' Category

Thoughts on Healthcare

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

These are just some of my random thoughts about the current healthcare stink. I make no guarantees of accuracy or even sound judgment. Is healthcare a right? The rights in the constitution are things that do not impose on another person’s rights, and these are rights to action, not property or some sort of service. [...]

The Keepers and The Kept

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

Alexis de Tocqueville once postulated that despotism could only take seed in American democracy through a kind of soft tyranny. He said that this tyranny would “degrade men without tormenting them.” He spoke of something that did not yet exist in his world. It was the idea of this tyrant appearing not as an oppressor, [...]

School Supplies

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

A few days ago, when I arrived home from work, my kiddos were all buzzing with excitement about what they’d done that day. Turns out that they had gone shopping for school supplies, and they could not wait to show me what they were going to be taking to class this fall. Jonah and Grace [...]

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