Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Deep Thoughts

My candlelight vigil against gun violence

The Brady Campaign, the folks who desire to limit your Second Amendment rights, are calling for a nationwide candlelight vigil this Sunday against gun violence. This is, of course, the one year anniversary of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona where Congresswoman Giffords was shot and seriously wounded. Several others were killed in this same shooting. [...]

Stand fast!

The Wall Street Journal has published their annual Christmas column: But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest [...]

Memories of September 11th

I stand by my stance that I said everything that I wanted to say about September 11th in my post on the 3rd anniversary back in 2004. Perhaps it’s because I remember what James Lileks wrote 3 years after 9/11: I have less to say on the fourth anniversary, because I’m not sure what needs [...]