Month: January 2020

Here in the great state of Virginia we have just enjoyed (or not so much) the annual UVA / VA TECH football game. And, if you haven’t heard (but I have no idea how that could be given the repeated proclamations for over 15 years) UVA FINALLY WON! Thus, ending “the streak.” Yup, the Wahoos…

Most people have no idea how big a role menhaden play in their diet. They’ve never eaten one but they’ve eaten plenty of things that do. More pounds of menhaden are landed annually in the United States than of any other fish (save pollock) and most of them go into food meal for animals and…

As great a development as the internet has been for humanity, it – like all “progress” – has its downside. And like most technology that influences us the resulting “down” has more to do with the fallen-ness of human nature than it actually does the thing itself. Take today’s hard political divide that now manifests…

How would you have liked to open up for Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg on Nov 19, 1863? Somebody had to, so why not one Edward Everett? But before you go feeling too sorry for Edward you should know that HE was the one who showed up that day as the primary speaker – with his…