The rest of the country hardly considers Portland, Maine, an urban center. In Maine, it is, though, and especially so from where I live, in the northern half of the state. One recent spring, I spent an April weekend in Portland, my first sojourn into a major city in almost a year. (It had beenContinueContinue reading “Urban Fashion Team”
Author Archives: David A. Woodbury
Off the Wall
November 10, 2016 – note to Mike Rowe Hey Mike. You’ve been very quiet. Everything OK? I just wanted you to know that I voted for you. I was also hoping you might explain what the hell happened on Tuesday, and say something to make me feel better about my fellow man. Thanks, Carol Savoy HiContinueContinue reading “Off the Wall”
To My LGBT+ Friends, etc.
To my LGBT+ and Muslim friends, my friends whose skin is lighter or darker than mine, my friends whose preferred language is not English, my friends who are currently women, and my friends who have mental and physical challenges that don’t afflict me: Greetings. I have been tasked to explain to you, (all but theContinueContinue reading “To My LGBT+ Friends, etc.”
Freedom
The passage below, about freedom, a hard-won human condition, is taken from Memoirs of a Superfluous Man by Albert Jay Nock, published in 1943, beginning on page 313. Like the general run of American children, I grew up under the impression that mankind have an innate and deep-seated love of liberty. This was never taughtContinueContinue reading “Freedom”
Congress Solves Your Problems
Soon after World War II, Congress began trying to solve all your problems for you. Up until then, if you had a problem, (if you were around then), you understood that you had a responsibility to solve it, and government understood its role to assure that you had the same chance as anyone else atContinueContinue reading “Congress Solves Your Problems”
Democracy or Republic
The Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, declares “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Nothing in the Constitution suggests that this country was ever intended to be a democracy. The critical difference is in the matter of rights. John Adams captured the essence of the differenceContinueContinue reading “Democracy or Republic”
The Individual Who Can Think and Create
In the words of AJN: Our society has made no place for the individual who is able to think, who is, in the strict sense of the word, intelligent; it merely tosses him into the rubbish heap… Intelligence is the power and willingness always and disinterestedly to see things as they are, an easy accessibilityContinueContinue reading “The Individual Who Can Think and Create”
Albert Jay Nock 