by the numbers: my cape cod morning commute

A year and a half ago I wrote a by the numbers with my commute in Chicago.  Below, my commute on Cape Cod.

15 minutes to get ready

1 stop sign to the office

10 lights to the office

28 miles to work

40 minute commute

a simpler rotary

There’s something nostalgic about rotaries on Cape Cod.  They resemble a simpler time when Cape Cod was at its height, and the Cape loves looking back at simpler times.  Today, the rotaries represent exactly what the Cape is today – overcrowded in the summer and out-of-date every other waking moment of the day. 

Whether they are overcrowded or out-of-date they are unique, just like Cape Cod. 

guns, hunger, & eisenhower

It’s December.  Which means at the end of the month the Bush era tax cuts will either expire, or be extended.  And if any Democrat wants to be reelected I am sure we will all see the tax cuts extended.  But that’s enough about what a payroll tax or estate tax would do for some, and nothing for a whole lot more. 

With all this talk about where everyone’s tax money is going, it made me ponder a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower that I heard today: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

First, with the rising of the Tea Party, do we let tax money go toward defense, or toward people who don’t have food or shelter?  Or, do we let those who cannot fend for themselves be susceptible to Darwin’s theory of evolution?  Second, if we can move beyond the idea of killing off the weak, is Eisenhower right?  Is the idea of ‘every gun…made’ theft from those who are hungry?  Finally, can we bring justice to Eisenhower’s idea?  Can we feed those who are hungry, warm those who are cold, and clothe those who are not?  

merry christmas

I hope everyone enjoys this holiday season.