The sporting life

| August 21, 2003

Tuesday was a great day. My visiting brother and I took my 12-year-old nephew fishing on Jordan Lake – off a dock, since I have no boat. The crappie were biting, and the boy managed to land one, as well as a catfish. My brother got a crappie. I got bupkus – about ten bites, […]

Honor, Hubris, A/C

| July 25, 2003

This article on honor (or honour, as our cousins spell it) both hits and misses a number of points. Yes, I have a few nits to pick. Not many. America, it seems, remains culturally divided along the Mason–Dixon line, and the crucial difference now, as at the time of the American Civil War, is honour. […]