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Herbert Hoover and Moral Engineering

Yesterday (October 3, 2025), Heidi and I visited the Hoover–Minthorn House in Newberg, Oregon. The house, built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, the Quaker founder of Newberg, stands behind a white picket fence, its clapboard walls repainted in pale yellow. Murray Rothbard had already set my prejudice against Hoover, so the visit was a sardonicContinue reading “Herbert Hoover and Moral Engineering”

PNWBMWM

Bad role-model parent day. Adin found a post from a BMW (M) club doing a drive to the Maryhill Stonehenge. He was excited to participate and see the other cars, so I agreed to drive so he could take photos of the rally. I drove my de-badged 2014, 428i xdrive that Adin had helped meContinue reading “PNWBMWM”