Ideas when they are like mosquitoes March 24, 2017 I’ve been spilling my thoughts out the past couple days with the same sort of orderliness one slaps oneself while standing in a swarm… Continue Reading
Keeping one’s perspective while confronting local and national crisis March 23, 2017 Tonight I plan to attend a fun event at Denfeld, its annual Speech “Concert.” This will be easier for me because Claudia will be… Continue Reading
Paranoia Pt 4 China’s turn….Aw to heck with this topic. March 21, 2017 In Chinese the character for “Crisis” is the combination of the symbols for danger & opportunity. I once asked a friend to draw the… Continue Reading
Paranoia Pt 3 Sacco and Vanzetti March 21, 2017 Last night I read something new about an old legal case that had liberals undies in a bunch back in my college days. Sacco… Continue Reading
“Best of Enemies” – Still a good movie 55 years on March 13, 2017 I have mentioned the old David Niven flick Best of Enemies half a dozen times now in the blog. It is not to be… Continue Reading
On the day that President Trump will give his first speech to Congress… February 28, 2017 … I was fixing old posts. One of them was this short post from JANUARY 23, 2012. Richard Nixon’s simple explanation for why America… Continue Reading
A change of subject- January 14, 2017 If I was going to squander my Saturday afternoon blogging it was to be on the MSBA conference but that may end up being… Continue Reading
MY most enjoyable MSBA convention ends January 14, 2017 The image below helps cleanse Lincolndemocrat after the previous post. I jotted down titles for about ten posts I wanted to write through the… 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 Big Short January 6, 2017 I put this movie in my memory bank over the last year when some economic analyst on NPR gave it a big thumbs up…. Continue Reading
Bleeding Kansas December 16, 2016 This is one of my Mother’s paintings. Its called “Lilly White Town.” She painted it to symbolize the new world we had moved to… Continue Reading
Infamy the flag and the Oval Office December 7, 2016 Readers of this blog will not find it surprising that I greatly appreciate today’s opinion piece in the News Tribune. The author will probably… Continue Reading
A little historical digging December 7, 2016 I found my Great Grandfather Thomas Robb’s farm home on Google Earth yesterday. You can see its right angles hiding in a grove of… Continue Reading
The wrong lessons from our history November 17, 2016 Donald Trump reads no books. His history is heavy with whatever lessons he learned at someone’s knees about the America First Committee which had… Continue Reading
Generosity and trust 2016 and on Aug. 29, 1942 November 17, 2016 I mentioned the magnanimity and solidarity of Duluth’s students yesterday particularly at Denfeld with its post-it note campaign started by its student rep on… Continue Reading
Rhinocerous November 14, 2016 Whether President Elect will attempt to rule like an autocrat remains to be seen. He ran as a demagogue. I expect that he will… Continue Reading
Veterans Day 2016 November 12, 2016 These were given to me on Veteran’s Day when the Philip Billard VFW Post 1650 of Topeka, Kansas, honored George Robb on the 99th… Continue Reading
Manchurian Candidate November 2, 2016 My daughter Facebooked me to tell me that she (young as she is) knows what the Manchurian Candidate is. For those who haven’t heard… Continue Reading
Topeka homecoming October 25, 2016 In 2002 I visited my old Topeka home with my Mother just as Alzheimers was beginning to intrude into her life. I asked her… Continue Reading
Breach Birth of a Nation October 7, 2016 There was an article on the movie title turned on its ear “Birth of a Nation” in yesterday’s DNT. The original “Birth” gave birth… Continue Reading
