Below The Beltway

Frankly, I usually love flying Southwest Airlines, especially for short trips. They’re cheap, they’re usually on time, and, if you check-in on line, you’re usually guaranteed a good seat.
Which is why this story from Warren Meyer is just so amusing. You see, he got an A boarding pass, which usually guarantees any seat on the […]

CNN has a great peace up about Hana, Hawaii and the world-famous Road To Hana
Long before you reach this onetime domain of the Maui ali’i (chiefs), Hana Highway — with its 54 one-lane bridges and slithering 52-mile course — has already made that message clear.
“Slow down, brah,” the road commands. “You’re going to Hana. Type […]

Brad Warbiany wonders how the past 60 years might have been different if nuclear weapons had never been developed.
Here’s a few scenarios that I think are quite likely:

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Not in California or Hawaii, in Cleveland:
CLEVELAND, Dec. 9 ? They surf in Cleveland because they must. They surf with two-inch icicles clinging to their wet suits, through stinging hail and overpowering wind. They work nights to spend their winter days scouting surf. They are watermen on an inland sea.
Given its industrial past, Cleveland largely […]

Stephen Green has been MIA at Vodkapundit for a few months now, but it looks like he’ll be back next week.

I cross-posted my Friday essay Getting Government Out Of The Marriage Business at The Liberty Papers and its generated quite an interesting response from my fellow bloggers over there.
First Brad Warbiany picks up on a quote from my post and asks this question
Imagine that you?ve been married 20 years. You got married in the Church, […]

Looking for some lunch time, or later reading ? Here are some recommendations
My new friend Alexandra at All Things Beautiful has started a lively discussion about theology and the Holy Trinity. All of the content has been generated by her readers comments, which is one of the things I love about blogging.
When you’re done there, […]

Congratulations are in order to fellow LLP’ers Stephen Littau of Fearless Philosophy for Free Minds and Brad Warbiany at The Unreprentant Individual, both of whom are celebrating the first birthday of their respective blogs.
For old times sake, here is a link to Steve’s first post and Brad’s first post.

A few things I’ve found in early morning web surfing that are worth checking out.
I woke up this morning and read this latest absurd rant from Richard Cohen on the war in Iraq, and prepared to rip it apart, when I found that Stephen Green had done my work for me, and far better than […]