by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The most hopeful change in human society that has occurred during my lifetime – a change that must continue if our grandchildren have any hope of a decent life – is really bad. It’s bad economically, bad socially, even bad culturally. But if you love your kids like I...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Newsletter
NASCAR fans in New Hampshire are lamenting the fact that NH International Speedway has dropped one of two races that it hosts each year – as the Monitor’s Ray Duckler noted in an article about last weekend’s race at Loudon, titled “Sound...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Pardon a personal rant, but for more than a decade my family has been fighting an invasive weed known as black swallowwort. It’s a vine that grows up from the ground and tangles everything; when we bought our property it had filled one field to the point that it...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
As I’ve noted several times, New Hampshire is one of the hotbeds of retail bitcoin usage thanks largely to the ultra-libertarian Free Staters. I believe we have more public bitcoin vending machines per capita than any state. For a short period s of July 31,...
by David Brooks | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Companies that make software to fight malware issue lots of alarming press releases about malware and I take them with a grain of self-serving salt. But here’s one that tweaked my Granite State interest: Computer users in New Hampshire were three times as likely...
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