June 4, 2015

My neighbor's delusion

A few years ago, my neighbor told me he was royalty – the king of some small European monarchy.  I imagined the Grand Duchy of Fenwick or some such.  You couldn’t tell he was royalty: he didn’t have a carriage, or servants...

January 22, 2013

What Did They Imagine?

Whenever the issue of gun-control is raised, you can, with absolute certainty, count on some poorly educated liberal to trot out the "our forefathers could not have possibly foreseen the destructive potential of future weapons" argument.  That i...

August 7, 2011

Balusters and Bureaucrats

Having purchased an old house, a friend of mine, John, was informed that the house had a number of code violations.  Specifically, the railing on the porch, at only twenty-one inches, fell considerably short of the city's required forty-two....