Trump is not Hitler…… March 21, 2020 An excellent review of “Hitler’s First 100 Days.” One of the most enduring questions I heard when young and pondered deeply was this. How… Continue Reading
Bonhoeffer vs Hitler and and the attack on my nemesis January 30, 2019 For the last two months I’ve been avoiding the last great organization of my house – the higgledy-pigaledy files I’ve successfully brought together up… Continue Reading
News of interest on Day 2 of Trump’s Presidency. January 22, 2025 Early on in Trump’s assault on Democracy I got preoccupied running for Congress against his PS Congressman Stauber, studying French, writing for the Reader… Continue Reading
Holidays, puzzles and Acquaintances November 29, 2024 We will miss Christmas in Duluth. I imagine my family will spend time in our snow sculpture free house. Our cat will in any… Continue Reading
My trip to Tennessee November 27, 2024 I bought two books at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. On returning to Duluth I began reading them both. Because of… Continue Reading
“the Weave” Trump’s not too demented way of hiding his dementia October 22, 2024 To prepare yourself for this late blog post in my recently neglected Blog I recommend that you begin by Googling pictures of Donald Trump… Continue Reading
What does it profit a man…? July 23, 2024 With 21 days to go I woke up after three hours and 13 minutes. My sleep o meter tells me I dreamed (was in… Continue Reading
Pants on fire, Many many pants July 17, 2024 Whether a President whose son in law is Jewish can be a fascist or not I’ll leave up to others. As I’ve written before… Continue Reading
Countdown 43 That MF Steve Bannon July 1, 2024 David Brooks wrote this piece for Today’s NY Times: My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon Bannon is Trump’s muse. Trump is Bannon’s useful idiot…. Continue Reading
The road to hell…intentions. Rain, what I am certain of – about yesterday which was 65 days away from the primary June 11, 2024 Its raining so for the moment after the first long night’s sleep in close to a week I’m almost rested. This after a long… Continue Reading
I’ll do my damnedest to avoid the use of the word “traitor” in this campaign May 18, 2024 But it ain’t gonna be easy! This is the photo I took this morning after mulling over the column I wrote last week which… Continue Reading
Resource Limit Is Reached – not hardly…… April 30, 2024 I have an annual physical with my doctor this morning to distract me from putting the final touches on my campaign to save the… Continue Reading
Higgledy Piggledy book February 24, 2024 I am recovering from reducing 4000 words yesterday to 900 for my Reader column next week. I will only be certain if I’m satisfied… Continue Reading
How hatred of Government became hatred of taxes became the modern GOP February 14, 2024 This screen capture from the intro to one of my favorite French detective shows Les petits meurtres d’Agath Christie fits with my last paragraph… Continue Reading
Genocide Joe vs Apocalypse Don February 1, 2024 Anne Frank……………………………………….Georganne Robb Like many books the Diary of Anne Frank was on my radar for years. Perhaps ten years ago I read that… Continue Reading
4 Books on HHH plus college admissions June 30, 2023 I started a stalled Reader column for the fourth or fifth time since I stopped submitting them a few months ago. It was about… Continue Reading
Looking for some traction in resuming my writing which has been on hiatus since I missed a Reader deadline six weeks ago. March 23, 2023 As a Lincoln liberal I don’t have any arguments with liberals. I do have some quibbles with the self righteous who cloak themselves in… Continue Reading
The Big Lie November 16, 2022 I talked about the book The Oppermans the day before the election. I have been reading it to Claudia and today I finished the… Continue Reading
Grim and Bear it. November 8, 2022 We walked over to the UCC church a few blocks away to cast our votes this morning and were joined by neighbors heading the… Continue Reading
Note the first line of the back side of my Jabba the Hutt card May 1, 2022 Hooray! The Reader went back on line and it has by declaration of candidacy against our very NICE GUY Republican candidate Pete Stauber. Remember… Continue Reading