Tag: Miscellanea

  • Poem of the Day: Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)

    MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,   Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:   ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,          5   But being too happy in thine happiness,       That thou,…

  • Words to Live By

    Two simple rules that everyone should remember: 1) Never become somebody that everyone else will hate. 2) Never try to be somebody that everyone else will like.

  • Houston Under Mandatory Evacuation Order

    Details here. Yikes. If you’re one of my Houston-area friends and see this, I hope you’re evacuated and safe!

  • Thought of the Day

    This world has some very, very sad things in it. My God, how we have screwed it up.

  • $4 Gasoline – Coming Soon, to a Pump Near You

    I’ve been saying for years, now, that $4/gallon gasoline is an inevitability in the United States. Between the fragility of global oil production, the popularity of gas-guzzlers and the fondness of legislators of tacking on all sorts of gas taxes, it is bound to happen. Well, it looks like it’s happening a few months earlier…