I wrote a few weeks ago that I would replace my morning ‘Daily Bread’ feature with something new. I didn’t properly consider that I’m not a writer, have no skill at composition, and wouldn’t possibly conjure a better name for the morning feature than the one a reader kindly suggested. I will keep the clever name someone suggested, and just tinker a bit with format.
(My most recent course in literature and writing took place during my first year away at school: a required seminar in poetry. The curriculum comprised a few Shakespearean sonnets, some Milton, and a smattering of contemporary poetry not worth reciting. The professor was a young woman from the South, with all of the efficiency of the region, but sadly none of its charm. We all did well, but she presented the material in so mechanical a fashion that, had she been Verse itself, there never would nave been a Romantic era.)
I’ve enjoyed this November, with the chance to digress as I might like, a bit of something here, something else there, these last few weeks.
October, November, December — of this year or next — nothing will change a few truths about Whitewater, Wisconsin’s situation. Planning will harm more than help, incumbents’ cheerleading is a vain and dishonest exercise, and nothing is better for what ails Whitewater than the American principles of individualism, free enterprise, and limited government.
I never — ever – expect to be more than one common voice among many. More important still, I am convinced and confirmed in the view that limited government offers this city vastly more than the arrogance of planning, the vanity of political projects, and the pride of bureaucratic schemes. That’s true independently of the writing of it; the alternatives differ merely in the degree of their disappointment.
So, back to the business of digging into any number of political and economic issues in this small, rural town.