links for 2006-07-29

Meditations on perseverance from a stonemason’s perspective

(tags: Poem)

(tags: Childfreedom Breeders PooProduction Marketing)

50 percent of all Americans are misinformed, and content to reamin so.

(tags: Krugman)

(tags: HeckuvaJob Malicki Iraq WheelsComingOff)

(tags: NPR MixedSignals)

(tags: JohnMcPhee Writing Geology NPR HowardBerkes)

Former governor of Utah, now HHS Secretary, he’s about to get the dreaded “heckuva job” edit by the Bushies for letting the latest scandal stick a little too well. Yet a critic says ‘He’s no Abramoff.’

(tags: CorruptRepublicans HeckuvaJob incompetent ThrowTheBastardsOut WheelsComingOff Abramoff)

Bear Pole Ranch, the later incarnation of Florence and Had Greear’s guest ranch, which became a much-loved children’s camp.

(tags: BearPole Colorado Ranch Camping)

(tags: Frist EstateTax Republican)