History built on Republican sand January 12, 2015 Reading my last Palm Beach Post of my Florida visit this morning I ran across this column by “conservative” Mona Charen about how the… Continue Reading
Armistice Day November 14, 2014 No caps here. I need a short break from ISD 709 before I return to the CAPS. This one will be more like Taps…. Continue Reading
My Buddy’s indicts me October 18, 2014 My Buddy writes: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, [your Buddy] wrote: Harry: From http://lincolndemocrat.com/?p=11931: If I ever attend to writing such… Continue Reading
Remember Harry. You are not the little Dutch boy… October 13, 2014 …and your blog is not a Holy Dam. [pun intended] Blog posts born of an overactive mind are a pain. I got Rosebud started… Continue Reading
The Presidential role call October 8, 2014 I’m about to tread on familiar territory. I surprised myself by finding this old post in a search. It only goes back to last… Continue Reading
Putting ISD 709 out of my head… May 1, 2014 …yeah, Sure. I said in a recent post that I planned to spend a couple days in Florida not thinking about the District. Well… Continue Reading
Q. What can I do in four years? April 4, 2014 A. Write a book. As I shoveled last night’s eight inches of snow from my front walk at noon my coat was open to… Continue Reading
Confession may be good for the soul but not the Powers that be April 3, 2014 Forty years ago we refused to agree that Agent Orange was poisoning our troops or the Vietnamese. Today some of us are back pedaling… Continue Reading
Johnny Carson and the Numero Uno conpiracy theorist… November 26, 2013 …James Garrison Part 1 Part 2 I thought I’d already uploaded this. This guy was Oliver Stone’s hero in the movie JFK. Continue Reading
Sheeple continued November 22, 2013 I know that lots of people believe fanciful things. For instance according to one poll a quarter of people think alien life has visited… Continue Reading
Count me among the “sheeple” November 21, 2013 Recent polls suggest that I’m in the 39% minority of Americans that believe Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy. According… Continue Reading
Family Bull October 21, 2013 I’m sixteen days away from the election. I have a dozen posts in my head waiting for my fingers to type them up. I’ve… Continue Reading
The writer’s studio October 6, 2013 I’m going to work very hard to keep this a short post. It won’t be easy. After a pretty good night’s sleep I woke… Continue Reading
Another book October 1, 2013 Until I began campaigning this year I was on a pretty good tear through some interesting books. I’ve got a lot of books on… Continue Reading
My weekend Questionnaire September 9, 2013 On Friday or Saturday I got a curious request from an unidentified person. It asked me to answer an attached questionairre and return it…. Continue Reading
America, America July 15, 2013 On our last night of the recent vacation Claudia and I were watching a PBS presentation on Elia Kazan. He’s one of the handful… Continue Reading
Six Paragraphs July 13, 2013 My return to the Reader Weekly, Duluth’s largest tabloid, was a little awkward. Although its publisher had kind words for me as he introduced… Continue Reading
3:44 Hotel Lobby, 2nd day of trip July 3, 2013 I hope I didn’t wake anyone up when I tried to sneak out of our hotel room twenty minutes ago. Not a very propitious… Continue Reading
Bronze Star March 26, 2013 I just remembered one more thing about that fellow in the nursing home with my Mother. He won a Bronze Star. I gathered that… Continue Reading
That guy in my Mom’s care facility March 25, 2013 For the past year there has been a harmless old guy with a yen to dance with the ladies at my Mother’s care facility…. Continue Reading