I often work late. Sometimes I’m tired and I like to play upbeat music to keep the juices flowing. One of my favorites – that I come back to over and over and never seem to tire of — is…

October 21, 1772 was the birthday of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a major English poet and literary critic. He is remembered especially for three major poems: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Christabel,” and “Kubla Khan.”

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is…

What you don’t know won’t hurt you is the motto of the tax man. Write a check to the IRS and you will squirm and whine. Write a big enough check to the IRS and you will holler and maybe even…

The really bad rain came last Sunday night. There had already been a couple of days of intermittent, unusually-heavy rain here in northwest Georgia, but Sunday night was different. It started shortly after the 5pm evening Mass let out and we just…

I’m not an economist but I am an avid gardener and I know that green shoots can be deceiving. Not everything that pokes its little green head above the soil is desirable… or survives the frost. I hope reports that this recession…

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At first I didn’t get it either.

For one thing, it was well past my bedtime when I got the email from my friend alerting me to the proposed bill that would give up to $3500 in tax credit to people…

What is a right? Where do rights come from? On what do they depend? Is there a hierarchy of rights? What obligations do one person’s rights place upon the larger society?

I am asking these questions because of the use of…

Have you heard the argument against the existence of God based on the size of the universe? You might find it strange that an argument against God would be constructed based on the enormity of space — something that elicits…

I’ve been wanting some decent outdoor furniture for a while. A couple of gardens I’ve been developing in my yard have become quite decorative and nearby trees offer shade to enjoy the comings and goings of butterflies and birds, but our…