Auction for Bark

A very special man was an important factor in bringing The Claire Files forum to the Internet. His name is Bark, and until recently, he was the web master at TCF. He has terminal cancer, which is being partly managed through herbal medications provided by some extremely generous folks that live near him.
An auction, to [...]

Auction for Bark

A very special man was an important factor in bringing The Claire Files forum to the Internet. His name is Bark, and until recently, he was the web master at TCF. He has terminal cancer, which is being partly managed through herbal medications provided by some extremely generous folks that live near him.
An auction, to [...]

Oh Tannenbaum

Sunday night, we hauled out our Christmas decorations and trimmed our Douglas fir. Each member of the Lew household has his, or her, own ornament box (shoe boxes are the dominant vessels for ornament storage), each bauble lovingly wrapped in old paper towels or last year’s cast off gift wrap.
This part of the Lew holiday [...]

Oh Tannenbaum

Sunday night, we hauled out our Christmas decorations and trimmed our Douglas fir. Each member of the Lew household has his, or her, own ornament box (shoe boxes are the dominant vessels for ornament storage), each bauble lovingly wrapped in old paper towels or last year’s cast off gift wrap.
This part of the Lew holiday [...]

Cory Maye

This morning, I read for the first time about Cory Maye, thanks to a thread at TCF started by NuclearDruid. Upon further search, the tragic events, and subsequent trial, conviction and death sentence of Maye has gone virtually unreported, until Radley Balko discovered Maye’s questionable conviction and began blogging it.
Balko’s blog, the Agitator, contains developing [...]

Cory Maye

This morning, I read for the first time about Cory Maye, thanks to a thread at TCF started by NuclearDruid. Upon further search, the tragic events, and subsequent trial, conviction and death sentence of Maye has gone virtually unreported, until Radley Balko discovered Maye’s questionable conviction and began blogging it.
Balko’s blog, the Agitator, contains developing [...]

The Gift of Time

Giving someone a gift doesn’t have to involve shelling out copious amounts of FRNs (Federal Reserve Notes).
Lew telephoned me from work this morning. “Where are you standing?” he asked.
I’d been walking into the living room, coffee mug in hand, to sit down in my favorite green wingback chair and chat with him. “In the living [...]

The Gift of Time

Giving someone a gift doesn’t have to involve shelling out copious amounts of FRNs (Federal Reserve Notes).
Lew telephoned me from work this morning. “Where are you standing?” he asked.
I’d been walking into the living room, coffee mug in hand, to sit down in my favorite green wingback chair and chat with him. “In the [...]

It’s a matter of attitude

Quote: An uphill libertarian finds freedom activities to be chores to be performed, tasks they find to be sacrifices, a constant uphill battle, if you will. A downhill libertarian feels the wind in her face, sledding down the hill on the constitution, dodging fedgov trees and plowing through fedgov snowmen with a wild grin on [...]

It’s a matter of attitude

Quote: An uphill libertarian finds freedom activities to be chores to be performed, tasks they find to be sacrifices, a constant uphill battle, if you will. A downhill libertarian feels the wind in her face, sledding down the hill on the constitution, dodging fedgov trees and plowing through fedgov snowmen with a wild [...]