[O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will [...]
Archive for October, 2008
We’re There
October 31, 2008Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Cambridge, Maryland
October 28, 2008All photos ©2008 Barry D. Jones. All Rights Reserved.
Take A Long Look
October 26, 2008We will not see their kind again.
This is the future:
Point Lookout, St. Mary’s County, Maryland
October 25, 2008©2008 Barry D. Jones All Rights Reserved.
Seasonal, non-political theme post
October 24, 2008Housecleaning
October 18, 2008I just deleted about half of my published posts. And, I haven’t posted anything lately either. This is mostly because nobody reads this blog, and the half hour or so I spend putting a post together is a half hour I’ll never get back. And life is short. Mine will be, anyway.
There probably won’t be [...]
We Live In F***ed Up Times
October 9, 2008The country I grew up in, and learned to love, is disappearing.
The economy is skidding off the tracks and no one has a clue how to straighten it out. Crooked politicians created a disaster by forcing banks to make bad loans, so they could tell voters ‘we’re going to make sure you can buy a [...]
Many Adults Long To Be Children
October 9, 2008I say this because this week, the Hallowe’en decorations have gone up in the halls of Blue Sky Mines.
In years past, a workplace might have seen one or two of those Hallmark cardboard jack-o-lanterns taped to a bulletin board. Maybe a plastic jack-o-lantern filled with penny candy next to the copier. Not any more. Not where [...]
Autumn Gold
October 8, 2008I didn’t get to make a fall color trek to the Colorado high country this year. I blame the Democrat-led Congress of course, and their regressive energy policy that keeps the cost of gasoline high.
Anyway, I’m digging into the OutWest archives for some greatest hits from autumns past.
Aspen grove along the Kebler Pass road in [...]
College Football Is Teh AWESOME
October 4, 2008Vanderbilt Upsets Auburn, 14-13
The Commodores of (19) Vanderbilt had not beaten the (13) Auburn Tigers since the 1955 Gator Bowl. They were down 13-0 in the first quarter of tonight’s game.
But then the Vandy defense closed the door for the night. They made a goal line stand in the 2nd quarter, stopping Auburn four straight [...]
