The Science and History of Moonshine
All of us have heard the term moonshine before, all of us know it’s illegal, but few of us really know what it is or how it’s made. For most of us it’s just something that they do in the hill country of Arkansas and Tennessee and doesn’t really effect us. But that’s not really true. This history of moonshining and the science behind it effect our lives today from everything from soda pop to professional racing and a lot of things in between. Here is a brief primer on both. First, lets get a few things straight. This whole […]
The Age of the Common Man
The Age of the Common Man, as Cooper termed it, is upon us. We have created a world of sensitivity and inclusion and community that is slowly choking out older values, values that helped to create this wonderful world we live in. Ideas like community have replaced self reliance, sensitivity has replaced achievement and political correctness has made liars and cowards of us all. We no longer execute people for speaking their mind, but we take away their jobs, and livelihoods for offending someone who was bound and determined to be offended in the first place. So, I present to […]
Institute of Man’s Happy New Year : Manly Resolutions
Every year the profusion of New Years Resolutions that I have to listen too makes me feel weary. I always here the same things repeated over and over. This year I am going to loose weight. This is the last cigarette I ever have. This year I’m going to exercise every day. I’m going to finally get that promotion I always wanted. No more cholesterol for me. There are two basic problems with these resolutions. The first is that people make them and they know ahead of time that they are never going to follow up. Maybe for the first […]
Honorable and Dutiful Men
I ran across this while reading a rare collection of articles by a rare man indeed. Those of you lucky enough to be familiar with the writings of Jeff Cooper will know what I mean. He was an unapologetic, unwavering and inflexible man that still believed in notions like honor, justice and bravery. These are concepts that we laugh at or spit on in today’s world, but they are the fundamentals upon which civilization is based. He extolled the three virtues that were first enumerated by Herodotus, then trumpeted by Theodore Roosevelt, and finally became the name of one of […]