The Outstater: Walter Mitty Polls the Governor
“’Quiet, man!’ said Mitty, in a low, cool voice. He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep. He began fingering delicately a row of glistening dials. ‘Give me a fountain pen!’ he snapped. — “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber in the March 18, 1939, New Yorker WALTER MITTY Read the full article…
Huston: A Crowded Field Until the Finish?
For the use of the membership only. by Tom Huston Lots of people seem to think it is inappropriate for unauthorized people to seek the presidency. While they don’t seem to agree on who does the authorizing, Democrats are convinced that too many aspirants are trying to climb aboard what they love to call the Read the full article…
Backgrounder: Redefining the ‘thin blue line’
“In a recent Quinnipiac poll of New York City voters, 61 percent of black respondents said they wanted the police to actively enforce quality-of-life laws in their neighborhood, compared with 59 percent of white voters.” —Heather Mac Donald in the June 14 Wall Street Journal For immediate release (645 words). by Joe Squadrito Before we let Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (53): Gene Stratton-Porter
by Andrea Neal Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, John Burroughs. To this list of famous American naturalists, add the name Gene Stratton-Porter of Indiana. Decades before the modern environmental movement began, Stratton-Porter warned against human activities that could lead to climate change. Also a best-selling fiction author, Stratton-Porter brought the beauty of the earth to Read the full article…
The Outstater: Safe at any Speed
For the use of the membership only. The most heartfelt arguments of those who favor larger government contend that otherwise life would be unsafe. Those arguments have been spectacularly successful, but are they based on truth? Food purity has been the pluperfect example since Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” a novel based on the Chicago Read the full article…
Doc Ippel: The Obesity ‘Epidemic’
by Bruce Ippel, M.D. It is called an obesity “epidemic.” Now an epidemic in my profession is something that sneaks up when you’re unprepared, when you’re minding your own business — and wreaks havoc. So obesity is no more a human epidemic than cars are an automotive epidemic. We did it on purpose. Famine and thinness Read the full article…
