The United States of America, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, a once “new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” faces a number of existential threats and many opportunities. The large alligator, approaching my little Sneak Boat on Lake Marion in June 2005, might be an apt metaphor for those threats, not really too serious if I am alert and take the proper actions but otherwise perhaps deadly.
Permanentfixes.com was established in 2009 and by 2017, more than 500 posts, on a wide variety of subjects, had accumulated. The writing had been a lot of fun and helpful in the process of thought clarification, but the overall result was a big mess with lots of repetition, many dated subjects, many broken links, and no logical order. It seemed that a good next step would be a new website combining new posts with edited posts on the same subject, all arranged in some logical order, and leaving behind many unworthy of survival. That is what this newer WordPress blog is.
Except for the pages titled “About This” and “Personal Stuff,” the pages are titled with general areas of interest and consist of links to all the posts on that subject. Just go to the Alphabetical List of Pages to choose your topic of interest. There are more posts on the topic of Government than on any other topic because that is where I see the most need and opportunity for Permanent Fixes.
I have ofeten said that my blogs were created so my grandchildren will know what I was thinking and will be able to figure out whether I was right or not. Maybe this will help them be able to do that.
And here is a link to the first post in this blog: Cornelius Vanderbilt – New Biography by T. J. Stiles.