My wife won’t be voting for me for Congress May 3, 2022 Two lovebirds toasting their voyage down the Yangtze River at the Three Gorges Dam Claudia has told me several times she will not be… Continue Reading
Kapos and Trump’s new “Ambassador” December 16, 2016 Another charming appointment that President Trump plans to make is an Israel-loving hard liner who wants to give Israel carte blanche. His name is… Continue Reading
Melania January 8, 2017 A family member recently Facebooked a Fake news story about the 700 Club’s smarmy Pat Robertson. In it Pat was accused of disparaging a… Continue Reading
The Republican Caucuses February 28, 2024 I almost missed the Republican Precinct Caucuses. After waking up as dark fell my wife asked me if I hadn’t been planning to caucus…. Continue Reading
Post-it Notes and Presidential Greatness – graph at bottom February 26, 2024 Its Monday and I have most of a whole day stretching out to review the 300ish old Not Columns I’ve written since 2002. As… Continue Reading
The Last Eight Days, Reader column published Oct 3, 2003 January 28, 2024 I don’t go back and read old columns often but I’ve begun to do that as I mine ideas for my possible race against… Continue Reading
What Would Lincoln Do? January 5, 2024 After a futile four hours of trying to fall asleep a slogan occurred to me that soothed my vexatious thoughts. What Would Lincoln Do?… Continue Reading
22 pages of notes…. August 24, 2023 On the Fox 2024 Republican Presidential Debate sans the frontrunner. I almost finished off a yellow legal pad taking notes on this curiosity. I… Continue Reading
The lucky charm, the wink and the next best thing September 29, 2022 I have my fingers crossed that I will get the best night’s sleep tonight that I’ve gotten in about 3 weeks. That’s because I… Continue Reading
Teepees, Books and French September 22, 2022 It will either be Covid or history books that shelves my plans to canvass for Jen Schultz over the next couple weeks. The typhoid… Continue Reading
News headlines that caught my attention on or before 08/29/2022 August 29, 2022 The reason for which I explained here. How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage? Depends Where You Live. https://nyti.ms/3Ti9IxH I read it. Someone is writing… Continue Reading
Father’s Day 51 day countdown June 19, 2022 My wife met a young woman who told her that she used to read my blog all the time when I was on 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
Proud of my family marching against the Apocalypse June 20, 2020 I just woke up a little after midnight. Indigestion like Scrooge’s bit of undigested potato afflicted me as did an image I’ll mention in… Continue Reading
Cassandra 3 May 3, 2020 I’ve written Cassandra 1, 2 and 3 in order so that you can read them as you scroll backward 3, 2 and 1. The… Continue Reading
No Title. Really? How did I forget that. This is about my evolving plans … April 28, 2020 It has become fairly obvious to me that I am unlikely to go to France in October to study French for 45 days come… Continue Reading
Thumbs up for Fox News April 9, 2020 This was going to begin as an argument about how fair minded I try to be while talking to people on the Right on… Continue Reading
CNBC headline 1,000,000 infections, 50,000 deaths – worldwide April 2, 2020 That’s a five percent death rate. Five in every hundred infected people die. But then again there are a lot of unknowing carriers still… Continue Reading
Harry’s Diary 1/23/2020 January 23, 2020 I returned money yesterday…..that’s the next post. Today I signed up for two more French apps on my cell phone. One allows me to… Continue Reading
Yesterday was a good day… October 3, 2019 …today is a good day. In fact the whole week has been good. Monday I participated in my second rehearsal for the Duluth Superior… Continue Reading