Here’s a picture of a horse grazing in Whitewater. It’s just a horse photo. No one describes pictures like that anymore, so I felt compelled to give it a stuffier title.
It’s still a horse photo.
If I were to call it Cavalo amarelo em pasto verde, people in Sao Paulo would still say: it’s just a horse photo (and an over-saturated photo at that).
But horses are elegant, this one is in Whitewater, and it’s fun to tease – the genesis of Pale horse in green pasture.
Good morning.
For Whitewater’s Monday, a chance of thunderstorms with a high of seventy-eight.
There are two principal public meetings in the city today: the Community Development Authority meets at 4:30 PM, and the Parks & Rec Board at 5 PM.
Google’s daily puzzle has a question for dog lovers: “The unique shape of what organ causes a particular breed of African dog to yodel instead of bark?”
For those who like to travel, NASA offers a Tour of the Moon from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:
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Second Pre-Election Video Shows Walker Saying He Will Negotiate with Unions – YouTube http://bit.ly/xPvHTG
It’s well-past time to acknowledge Charles and David Koch as former libertarians. ABC does as much in a story about them. One can expect their efforts to control the libertarian Cato Institute for the benefit of the Republican-friendly Americans for Prosperity will only lead to more descriptions like this:
While the case is pending in a Kansas court, the short-term result has been a public debate over the role of Cato, and whether the mainstream Republican Koch brothers would ruin its libertarian reputation.
(Emphasis added.)
Via In a Power Grab, the Kochs’ Struggles Are Revealed – ABC News.
Posted originally on 3.16.12 at Daily Adams.
I rode through the city last night, to the pleasant sight of students grilling out on lawns across town. Lawn after lawn, block after block, the sweet aroma of barbecue greeted me, and then lingered in reminder, as I rode by.
Along one street, students on a front lawn clapped in a quickening rhythm as cars drove, and I rode, past. I turned back and waved, and they clapped again.
We’ve seasons of contentious elections ahead, but after seeing the city in repose, how could one not be optimistic? No matter how hard these times have been – and they’ve been very hard – America slowly recovers, returning to her former strength.
Those enjoying last night’s warm weather were confidently unbowed before our immediate problems. There’s a welcome optimism in them.
The generation now on our campus will have its difficult moments, but they’ll do well for themselves, for Wisconsin, and America.
It was a good night, and a good sign, for the city.
Smart, conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin asks Why are libertarians afraid of Santorum? Our resolute opposition to his conservatism comes not from fear, as though irrational, but instead from our own liberty-oriented principles. (Rubin crafts her post title carefully to frame the discussion most favorably to Santorum.)
David Boaz of Cato answers her question in the way most libertarians would, by emphasizing that libertarians’ worry is ‘philosophically-minded’:
Being philosophically minded, what scares me most about Rick Santorum is not his specific policy mistakes but his fundamental objection to the American idea of freedom. He criticizes the pursuit of happiness! He says, “This is the mantra of the left: I have a right to do what I want to do” and “We have a whole culture that is focused on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness … and it is harming America.” And then he says that what the Founders meant by happiness was “to do the morally right thing.”
He really doesn’t like the idea of America as a free society, where adults make their own decisions and sometimes make choices that Santorum disapproves. In practice, I worry that he would continue and intensify Bush’s big-government conservatism….
There’s a cynical way in which some libertarians would welcome a Santorum
candidacy in the fall, on the theory that he’d do so poorly that the GOP would thereafter reject his approach.
Perhaps that’s true, but national rejection of Sen. Santorum’s approach in November would mean endorsement of Pres. Obama’s approach, and that’s simply another big-government solution.
For it all, there’s no libertarianism in those libertarians who insist that anyone who might defeat Pres. Obama is worthy of our support. The Kochs have this extreme view, and it’s why they’ve gradually (and now suddenly) stopped looking libertarian to movement families.
They insist on using all the movement as mere fuel for the conservative, partisan-in-fact Americans for Prosperity. Tens of millions of dollars later, the Kochs have made AFP influential, but libertarianism weaker.
Where they lead we’ve no reason to follow: no opposition to Pres. Obama justifies libertarian support for Sen. Santorum, who offers the liberty-movement nothing at all.
Posted originally on 3.15.12 at Daily Adams.
Marquette’s in the West, Wisconsin’s in the East, but who’ll have a better NCAA tournament? One might be fans of both, but this question’s just asking for a prediction. What do you think?
If you’re on Facebook, here’s a treat: And My Cat is a Facebook page kindly sent my way. Of Facebook’s many, many solid points, this page is probably a top ten.
Enjoy.
