Smokin’, Part I

| July 5, 2003

Tonight is the party a bunch of us are having for the Independence Day weekend. Ya, ya, yesterday was the Fourth, but the party is tonight. As previously discussed, I’m providing the barbecue. Yesterday, I brined the newly-acquired pork. Note: barbecue is pork. Not beef, not chicken – pork. Furthermore, “barbecue” is not a verb, […]

Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honor

| July 4, 2003

An indispensable educational resource: A User’s Guide to the Declaration of Independence. It is a shame that the average American doesn’t read the Declaration even once a year, much less take the trouble to understand it. I know an immigrant or two who treasure it more dearly than do many or most of my fellow […]