Wakefield Tolbert

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Gender Male
Industry Business Services
Location Hell's Backyard
Interests In order of memory, and not importance: Making sure Pluto returns to its prior status as a planet, Galactic Governance, Poison Dart Frogs, Travel (when possible), Gardening, Crocodilians, Caimans, Alligators, Landscaping, Homeschooling, Conservative politics, politics, Christian theology, Parenting, Religion, History, Economics, Environmental issues, Philosophy, reading, writing, blogging, poetry, (well, some of it), Cooking, (always hungry, so might as well eat something well made), Science, The Apostle Paul, Southern superstitions, Southern legends, art, (real art, and not smudged canvass) Personal heroes (human-political) might include, Emperor Palpatine, as none real or living are quite as effective at getting things done.
Favorite Movies The Manchurian Candidate, (with Frank Sinatra) Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, (set of six---'Hexology'?), Reign of Fire, The Prestige, The Illusionist, The Ghost and the Darkness
Favorite Music A hummed rendition of Jingle Bells is good enough for me... (Bolero is good too)
Favorite Books The Bible, Liability, The Press and America, Afghanistan: The Soviet War, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Issues, The Death of the West, Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, Nuclear Weapons and the Threat of Nuclear War, The Secret War in Central America, Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, The Ideology of the Sandinistas and the Nicaraguan Revolution, The Doomsday Myth, Losing Ground, The Closing of the American Mind, Why Government Can't Save You, Breaking Faith, The Letters of JRR Tolkien, At Dawn We Slept, The Jungle, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, The Real Lincoln, Philosophy: Who Needs It, The Naked Public Square, Official Lies, Capitalism and Freedom, Betrayal, Toxic Terror, Give Me a Break, Having it Y'all, Of Wolves and Men, The Universe Next Door, The Center of the World, None Dare Call it Education, Survival Is Not Enough, Good Order, Outrage, Dictatorships and Double Standards, How Now Shall We Live, The Exodus (Leon Uris), The Ultimate Resource, How Democracies Perish, Parliament Of Whores, The Government Against the Economy, Atlas Shrugged, The Good Life, The Case for Faith, What's so Great About Christianity, The Art of War, Mere Christianity, Ocean Almanac, The War Against the Intellect, Darwin's Black Box, Can Man Live Without God, The Consequences of Ideas, Useful Idiots, The Soul of Science, Competing Visions, Lord of the Flies, The Soviet Political Mind, Subliminal Politics, Mediated Political Realities, The Capitalist Revolution, Wild at Heart, U.S. Ground Forces and the Defense of Central Europe, Great Dialogues of Plato, Mythology (Edith Hamilton), The Odyssey, Slander, The New Class, In Defense of Elitism, The Canterbury Tales, Terrorism: How the West Can Win, How to Lie with Statistics, Immortal Poems, The Federalist Papers, Wealth and Poverty, Dezinformatsia: The Strategy of Soviet Disinformation, Solzhenitsyn

You have a red jar of cedar chips. Why do moths miss the forest?

The chips were down! (Then they ended up on someone's shoulder...)