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I realized on the way back to the hotel tonight that I hadn't done the standard traveling journalist thing and queried the taxi driver about his views. My driver was a young guy from Somalia who's been in this country...

I'm sorry, but you cannot make me care that Sarah Palin might have been a part of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party (the news account is here). So what? I hope she does have something to do with them; it...

I’m going to try something a bit different today - I will be publishing as I go along, since I visit the sites I am writing about and in the past I have had site owners reciprocate the visit before I had posted the round up. So - check back often this entry is going to grow as time goes on! First off, I want to welcome a few new members to my blogroll.

Alex Massie is spending his summer in the Scottish countryside, and getting in touch with his inner Hank Hill. Excerpt: So, in that respect, the suburban lawn and garden seems a perfectly rational response, adapting an ancient human need -...

Good stuff going on today - let’s start out with Gawfer, my squid buddy, who got off blogspot and into a sleek WordPress template on a paid server… I’m going to group all these together, as they all have a common theme: The Invasion of the United States by Armed Members of the Mexican Army! Old Soldier, GuyK, , and American and Proud.

Has it been a week already? Wow… time flies. First up (on the random “top of the blogrolls” generator) is Texas Fred with a reiteration on his beliefs about where the WoT should have been, and why going where we did was a mistake. Good read. Oh, and he’s on his new server, too.

Here's a great Dallas Morning News column by Trey Garrison, defending his decision to settle in a Dallas suburb and not inside the city of Dallas, even though he gets made fun of by his "urban yokel" pals for being...

The beauty of Balltown How about some good news, for a change? Dateline: Balltown, Iowa. Last Christmas, the landmark local restaurant, Breitbach's Country Dining, blew to smithereens in an explosion that appears to have been accidental. The place had been there serving farmers breakfast since before the Civil War.

Krier's humane architecture The reason to move to Dallas is the great people. It's not the climate, and it sure as hell ain't the architecture. This is an ugly city. There are oases of beauty, to be sure, but they only cast into relief what a carbuncular wasteland Modernism has made of this Texas prairie settlement.

Cohousing Ever heard of cohousing? It's a new style of building neighborhoods in which families live in their own houses, built around a commons area, and share an old-fashioned community life without exactly being a commune. Here are the Six Characteristics of Cohousing: 1. Participatory process.