Socialism is like a Chinese finger trap. Playing with it just a bit look harmless and even fun, but once you start on that road it much easier to get further trapped than it is to free yourself.
Image based on stuck for lyfe by Chris Martin.
I read a great example of this in the comments [...]
I just went and saw my last show as a season ticket holder at Hale Center theater. I really enjoyed it as I have so many shows there, so why not get season tickets as I have ever since I moved back to Utah? Because HCT is a perfect example of what happens when the [...]
I’ve already admitted that Health Savings Accounts are not the full solution to our health care system, but they are among the most powerful tools that we have today. The example of Whole Foods grocery really illustrates the point.
Five years ago, the Whole Foods grocery chain switched to a high-deductible plan. If an employee has [...]
Most of the people in Utah know about the crazy storms that we have had the past 2 days (mostly yesterday). I thought I would share just two pictures showing the results in our yard.
These are our sunflowers. They were already bending under the weight of their ripening heads, but they were over 9 feet [...]
While reading through my feeds today I learned from Kim Cavanaugh’s Brain Frieze about the official Library of Congress blog. I went over to have a look and got curious about what software they had running the blog. Maybe it was something about the familiar format of the postmetadata section that got me looking. I [...]
Yesterday was one of those days. I wanted to get the Christmas lights up on the house and possibly write another candidate endorsement. Instead my day went something like this:
Get up with Isaac for night feedings at 2:00am and 5:30am
Run 6 miles at 6:00am
Help get breakfast on the table for the kids who have kept [...]
I thought it would be fun to show the sign I made for our front lawn announcing Isaac’s arrival.
Here is the first picture I took of Isaac.
This picture was two experiments combined - first, use the self timer on the camera (I had never done that with this camera before); and second, get four children to look at the camera at the right time. I cropped the image, but this is us, today, [...]
