The last laugh September 2, 2025 Last post: Tangerine Man Next post: Podcasting in English for the French and other miscellaneous ecclectics I am torn between two subjects I feel… Continue Reading
Osnos, China and Have Yachts June 22, 2025 Last post Next post I saw this book title yesterday in a NY Times news story and again today. I read it outloud to… Continue Reading
Unmaking America great – My take and a Chinese take April 17, 2025 Last post Next post HERE’S MY VIEW OF TRUMP AS AN AMERICAN. I used this vinyl cutout at the recent Hands off protest in… Continue Reading
Honey not Vinegar February 17, 2025 Previous Post Next post My Mom impressed upon me that “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.” Its a nice thought but the… Continue Reading
China, Chinese and Chinamen and America in two important books. Followed by a kick to the ass to Trump supporters February 13, 2025 I highly recommend the previous post which describes what may become a short lived effort to improve this seldom viewed blog by reading the:… Continue Reading
My Faustian Quest – China January 27, 2025 With the exception of Barbara Tuchman’s book Stillwell in China these are the books I’ve read or want to read or an partly through… Continue Reading
Catch up as I renew my attempt in 2025 to be soon-to-be President Trump’s worst nightmare January 10, 2025 Puzzling into the new year. My fingers have taken a long rest as I reorient myself to the looming nightmare of our worst president;… Continue Reading
Three Horsemen of the Apolocalypse November 3, 2022 Belatedly…Here is my last week’s contribution to the Duluth Reader Today or tomorrow this week’s column will appear in the Reader. I’ll have to… Continue Reading
Two Bibles and more October 15, 2022 After my foray into Native American history I am going to change course. Claudia is now reading Black Elk Speaks and we were chatting… Continue Reading
How corruption, dictatorship and Trump live incestuous lives together February 10, 2022 I created a new category for this post at this time. Its Democracy under threat. I post it at a time when 64% of… Continue Reading
Who follows me abroad? January 22, 2022 I only have a dim technical idea what these stats mean. I have been looking at them since 2006 when “hits” was the measure… Continue Reading
The Uighur games November 22, 2021 I’m angry that China is doing to a million Uighurs what the Americans did to Native Americans……try to obliterate their customs and languages in… Continue Reading
Jaina July 19, 2021 Without comment I will leave you this very interesting analysis of the likely future conflict between the US and China over Taiwan. https://www.eurasiareview.com/19072021-china-xi-jinping-is-about-to-make-most-important-strategic-decision-of-our-era-analysis/ I… Continue Reading
China November 29, 2020 I have something to say about this…….among many other neglected topics. Three years ago my wife and I got back from a lovely two-week… Continue Reading
King pus grovels in China June 20, 2020 Like Scrooge, I woke up to a Marley dragging chains and locks into my dreams tonight. I came back from a mask wearing family… Continue Reading
We are postponing Easter April 5, 2020 I have to give a little grudging thank you to President Trump. His stop order on flights from China slowed down the introduction of… Continue Reading
Sepsis, Isis, Trumpsis August 6, 2019 Rot, mayhem, stupidity = world economic collapse. Sustained and amplified by Republican politicians hiding under a naked President’s petticoats. Continue Reading
The Rule of Law July 2, 2019 Wherever two million people gather to protest injustice some small portion of them can be counted on to use the disruption to soil the… Continue Reading
Colbert on Trump………..again May 8, 2019 I don’t watch the late night hosts mock President Trump very often anymore. They were a comfort to me for the first year of… Continue Reading
Trip down Market Street March 6, 2018 A couple days before the San Francisco Earthquate the Mile’s brothers put a movie camera on a trolley (infamous for their third rails) and… Continue Reading