News & Blogs
02.19.09 / Back to 1900 is not the way back to the land
By Curtis Seltzer Every once in a while you read a memoir of folks doing something so colossally pointless that you root for them to succeed. Like a one-legged man of 102 hopping up Mount Everest backward and blindfolded in a flip-flop, holding his breath to avoid breathing oxygen-thin air. I picked up Logan Ward’s See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America last Friday. It turned out to be one of those entertaining clueless-urban-writer-moves-to...
02.12.09 / You need a farm truck on your farm team
By Curtis Seltzer I don’t romanticize farm trucks. Mine doesn’t get Christmas presents like some do. And it’s not allowed up on my bed, even with clean feet. A farm truck never washes or changes its socks. It’s comfortable being a bachelor. I consider my 1980 4WD Toyota pickup with 260,000 miles a full-time farm laborer who has to earn his keep. He is known as “The Cheetah,” because a scrap of factory-yellow paint is still visible on his rusty hood...
02.05.09 / Your money: Fear is pretty risky
By Curtis Seltzer The Nation’s road out of economic recession/depression is flanked with 1950s advertising: We’re in trouble Far and nigh. So shut your yap and Buy, buy, buy. Burma-Shave Washington plans to buy improvements to various infrastructures--transportation, energy, education, health care. It is hoped that public spending will stimulate consumer buying, which will reboot the private economy and take over as the stimulus runs its course. It is also hoped that the billion...
02.02.09 / Rural America is ready to stimulate
By Curtis Seltzer Those of us who live and work in what the New Yorker might consider the muddle of the American nowhere may have once believed that life at the fat end of the Nation’s political telescope made things that looked far away be even farther. Some of us even thought we had disconnected ourselves from the turmoil of modern society. No more. While nobody in my county of 2,500 has a Bloomberg terminal, each of us now understands that the number of dollars we have in our wallets de...
01.26.09 / Country news: The message is anything but medium - By Curtis Seltzer
A pretty big week was had by all in Blue Grass, though nothing much happened. Most of our weeks are pretty big by this standard. I always advise real-estate buyers to subscribe to the local paper to get a sense of what is and is not going on. If Blue Grass had a paper, a kitchen-counter columnist known as “Yours Truly” might have written this column for last week. Everyone was real proud of Chesley Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who landed his bird-crippled jet atop the Hudson ...
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