buy provigil india On Sunday I took a trip up to the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. The prison is located on 18,000 acres along the Mississippi River and is often called “The Farm.” It is apparently a lineal descendant of a plantation called Angola whose owner leased convicts from the state to till his land; […]
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The Angola Rodeo.
21-Apr-09Change.
23-Jan-09I think we are just beginning to see just how transformative Barack Obama’s election has been for the psyche of this country. Already he is an icon (and I mean that in the fullest sense). He is unleashing something that has been dammed up in this country for a long time. Photo: mailbox in Bethesda, […]
Barack Obama’s speech.
21-Jan-09One of the reasons why it felt so different was that he was asking us to do something. It wasn’t like a Bill Clinton speech with a laundry list of ideas, nor like a Bush speech about a threat we face. Both of those were elements, but the general impression I got from the speech […]
Barack Obama’s Audacity of Hope.
24-Oct-08Let me start this review by stating that The Audacity of Hope is not a great book. I spend a great deal of time reading old books, and I am always looking, in modern books, for the quality and depth of thought I find in the old ones. It would be delightful to find the […]
Small government and big business: Jindal and the GOP.
02-Mar-09buy disulfiram I’ve taken my time writing in response to Tuesday evening’s political events – the speeches of Obama and Jindal – but the ground has not shifted in the intervening days. The best vocalized reaction from a pundit, I have found, comes from David Brooks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoKd9irM9dM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ztrF253DE Obama’s speech was muscular and serious, a ripening of […]