Yellowstone – a critique April 11, 2025 Last post Next post One of my favorite people urged me to watch the series Yellowstone, now in its third season. Skepticism in my… Continue Reading
3-4 Breaking Bad March 4, 2025 Last post Next post This is an afternoon project. Feel free to come back! Continue Reading
Fewer Americans are encumbered with Church affiliations March 3, 2025 Last post Next post The latest story about declining Christian Belief: from the PEW research group finds it has leveled off. I suspect church… Continue Reading
In the News Today – Billionaires January 30, 2025 I repeat. Here’s the link to the NYTimes story on old money billionaire thinking about new money billionaires. I don’t think you can read… Continue Reading
Where have I been? Where am I going? July 12, 2024 Most recently this is where I’ve been. Yesterday, I asked the two subcontractors who were relining my gutter if I could hang on to… 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
50 days where from here? how about some thoughts on conservatism? June 24, 2024 I almost got to Proctor which would be my fourth city in the Congressional District yesterday and put up signs. There were some yuks…. Continue Reading
A few breaths of air before some quickish blogging and before I plunge back into my world changing book editing February 15, 2024 That’s one of the longer titles I’ve ever written. And this is meant to be a short post. Before I set out for my… Continue Reading
Set back two hours January 21, 2024 I’m crushed. I just plunked out a good post and apparently lost it. I’d be hard pressed to do it justice and I poured… Continue Reading
Speaking of people worthy of a Evangelical abortion after their birth January 16, 2024 Here’s a headline post Iowa Caucuses from the Washington Post regarding a poll of Americans listening to Donald Trump: Half of Americans agree with… 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
a tid bit I doubt but which has me thinking August 30, 2023 Claudia reads her own set of books when I’m not reading to her in the car or in the living room. This one had… Continue Reading
How the heirs of the KKK stole a Pope’s infallibly to divide and conquer America April 24, 2023 JFK addresses anti-Catholic preachers in 1960, Google:“The Kennedy Speech that Stoked the Rise of the Christian Right” Read it here Continue Reading
The Nine…..and the mirror image November 24, 2022 I finished my column early because of a stepped up Reader deadline. It seems printers like to enjoy their holidays too…..not to mention editors…. Continue Reading
My wife’s Sunday Sermon. It brought tears to my eyes. February 23, 2022 The other woman in my immediate family. Continue Reading
A thought for your consideration January 29, 2022 The Internet is like the Ganges River. It is holy and full of human waste, pollution and corpses. And by the way, if the… Continue Reading
Society of Charletons September 16, 2021 I mentioned the book Jesus and John Wayne by evangelical truth teller Kristin Kobes Du Mez both on the blog, here and here, and… Continue Reading
Zip tying myself to French September 3, 2021 Fresh from watching a video of a Trumpian coffee shop owner attempting to zip tie an Arizona principal for not letting unmasked children risk… Continue Reading
The Tucker Carlson Fan Club, latest Reader Column August 6, 2021 Read it here: The Tucker Carlson Fan Club Continue Reading