Jack Benny Days – 39 July 5, 2024 A month and 9 days ought to be ominous for my slow flowering campaign. In fact at the end of yesterday I was feeling… Continue Reading
Countdown 65 days post cicadas and the Citadel June 10, 2024 Its a beautiful day ahead and time for me to kick signage into a little higher gear. Perhaps I can hit 100 signs today…. Continue Reading
The Brood and the Good Read Countdown day 67 June 9, 2024 I did not expect to be thinking about the campaign much on this weekend away from the stump but I forgot that Claudia and… Continue Reading
I’ll do my damnedest to avoid the use of the word “traitor” in this campaign May 18, 2024 But it ain’t gonna be easy! This is the photo I took this morning after mulling over the column I wrote last week which… Continue Reading
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
