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
My latest in the my 1972 series in the Duluth Reader February 16, 2024 Read it here: 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
A damn good letter February 7, 2024 Another picture from my Flickr Page This is a letter Park College gave me sent to them in the Second World War when they… Continue Reading
A Note to my archivists – in case my campaign for Congress makes me famous January 28, 2024 I have been discovering more resources to write about my history of watching the GOP turned all Tomas de Torquemada. (check Wikipedia) I was… Continue Reading
19 pages with a little editing and tweaking over another two hours. January 18, 2024 I’m in no hurry. One book a month would be superlative but this one might serve me for the next six months. Continue Reading
Besides throwing the last shovel of dirt on Lincoln’s grave how else did Donald Trump further fuck up the world? January 18, 2024 Note: I use the word “further” here to note that Donald Trump only threw gas on an already burning pile of troubles. I could… Continue Reading
Remembrance and Taxation without representation – my latest in the Reader October 13, 2023 Remembrance and taxation without representation 2nd of a series on a Trip to Washington DC. It begins: One of my grandsons practiced taking night… Continue Reading
Taking the Boys to DC part one of perhaps 10 or 11 columns to come September 13, 2023 The Reader published the first of what could end up being a series of 11 columns about my ruminations following a week-long sojourn to… Continue Reading
Trump’s hair challenged predecessor August 30, 2023 Word is out from critic Bolton that Trump spends his first hour and a half of the day having cosmeticians build his thinning hair… 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
Condemned to repeat it May 3, 2023 If you are historically, philosophically or Double Jeopardly enough you will recognize the end of the end of my favorite phrase about the study… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 23, 2023 Harry Welty’s latest snow sculpture recreates Joe Rosenthal’s famous WWII photo of the Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima. My… Continue Reading
Semper Fi January 13, 2023 My simplified version of the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. 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
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
History’s Sausages October 15, 2022 Carl von Clausewitz My French pen pal really liked this column which begins: “A couple decades ago when Duluth was about to disinter the… Continue Reading
Techumseh October 6, 2022 Having finished my second book on native american history in the last month I’m starting two new books. I’ll start Peter Cozzens book Techumseh… Continue Reading