Minutemen

| February 18, 2004

I had never personally witnessed a house fire, until a few nights ago. Fire broke out in the garage of a house on the other side of the street from mine. The reasons aren’t clear to me, but it’s really none of my business (unless there’s a serial arsonist running around out there.) The homeowners, […]

Happy Birthday, Sir

| February 6, 2004

Ronald Reagan turned 93 today. During the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate Reagan made a campaign stop and policy speech at our Illinois college one day. I, having been born & bred in California, had spent a number of years with him as my Governor, so I suppose I had an “in” with the College Republicans. […]