Category: North Carolina

Thanks to Jason at kottke.org  Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap. Mr. Buffett compiled a data sheet of the

Garrison picked a good example of Horace’s writings. I find it a prayer I could also recite on a daily basis… On this day in 8 B.C., the Roman poet Horace died (books by this author). He hated the chaos of Rome, and when his patron gave him a farm in the Italian countryside, he wrote, “I prayed for this:

Colleen does it again…She takes me to where I need to be on this the day before I return to the grind. She starts it thus… A good book. A lounge chair. The sun makes freckles on my bared skin. A single fat fly buzzes by like a fighter pilot that doesn’t know the war is over. This one doesn’t

I have been reading a new blog. Kelly Harmon is a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova. I love the way she looks at life and the slightly twisted way she writes. If you have a minute or two go have a look at what she has posted since moving to Moldova. Her perspective on the joy’s of the back to the

Since they selected him to run the country it’s only fitting that they figure out what to do with him when he doesn’t. Time for a little accountability on the part of some black robed non-members of the electoral college?  WASHINGTON — Things are bound to heat up at the Supreme Court Wednesday, when justices weigh whether the Clean Air Act requires the

One of the nice things about the internet is the way you stumble upon the…the unexpected gem. One of the news feeds that I have been subscribed to for a few weeks is Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly. This morning while things were slow I was going through the archives at Cool Tools and decided to find out more about the site

IN 1789, CONGRESS requested of George Washington that the young nation’s first president, as he put it, “recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer.” The grand traditions of the holiday that we all look forward to today — grotesque overeating, traffic jams and airport delays, endless sports on television, and family squabbles

Today’s walk wasn’t near as cold as yesterdays. It also was different in that I didn’t take my camera. I started of at the Bayou watching the sun come up over the trees. I stood there a long while soaking up the rays and warming my face. From that meditative start I wandered sunward down the trail stopping and listening