Francis Bacon
Promote the General Welfare
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021Taxes fund public services. A vote is our voice for funding these services. As a community, we decide on which services to fund or how they are funded. We benefit from these services either directly or indirectly. Direct benefits are pretty easy to understand. If you have a child in a school, then you and […]
Expert Advice
Thursday, May 27th, 2021My dad, Yves “Buster” Melancon served for twenty seven years in the United States Army. He earned the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3. He started his career as a mechanic and ended as an Automotive Superintendent. Some of my best memories are helping him work on cars. In the 1970s he didn’t have a […]
Bacon, Sir Francis, Not Fried.
Thursday, July 9th, 2020Francis Bacon is in many ways the father of the Modern World. In 1620 he explained why astronomers were making revolutionary breakthroughs studying the planets. He called his work Novum Organum, or New Methodology. The world knows his contribution as the Scientific Method. The journey to Bacon took nearly eighty years. The century before Nicolaus […]