Stephen Lingwood wrote about today’s UK local elections, which led me to a free-form Google search about local elected officers. One offfice, known in New England, that tickled me was the hogreeve: “a now-ceremonial position formerly in charge of rounding up loose hogs.” (Wikipedia)
I love it.
From that, I found a little poem from 1819 about […]
The next installment.
Y’all know I’m a car-free crunchy guy, but not without (some) sympathy for drivers. It sucks to have the economic basis of a low-density residential environment dry up and get expensive.
OK — better get to my point before my sympathy dries up, too.
People need to save gasoline now, not wait five or ten or twenty […]
I’m been writing a long, moving article in my head. It is how we should buy American-made goods to support domestic industry for economic diversity and fair-waged jobs in the manufacturing sector. I was going to appeal to the grossly lopsided balance of trade we have with China, and consider the present and emerging environmental […]
Let me tell you this slightly Latino (12.5%) American feels a visceral swell of hope and pride over today’s actions. Not only because a hugh number of new and future (US) Americans took a visible measure of control over their personal, economic and political welfare, but also because it showed that a non-goofy, non-self-marginalizing mass […]
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