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
Running on Fumes November 3, 2017 Even in my cabin on a boat floating down the Yangtze River this August I would wake up thinking about my reelection campaign for… Continue Reading
China journey – last Facebook “slideshow” August 10, 2017 Here’s how I captioned my final Facebook slideshow on our China trip: “A Ming Garden that survived the Cultural Revolution. Ancient crafts that survived…. Continue Reading
Second to the last China Slideshow August 8, 2017 I’m not quite sure what days of our trip these represent. We berthed in Wuhan two nights next to some not quite mothballed Chinese… Continue Reading
Third China slideshow August 5, 2017 Facebook has become a useful place for me to record things happening in my life. But I still resent opening it up to a… Continue Reading
VPN in China August 4, 2017 Before I left China I learned that a few of my fellow travelers were downloading VPN aps to get around the Great China Firewall…. Continue Reading
Making up for Chinese censorship August 4, 2017 Finding myself denied the chance to send out greetings to Facebook left me with some pent up frustration. As my eight loyal readers know… Continue Reading
China in the rear view mirror – Post 1 August 3, 2017 China may block Facebook but Facebook is pretty stingy about letting people easily share the posts they’ve put together. Last night after picking out… Continue Reading
