Vive la France….From this week’s Reader November 12, 2021 The Reader online is now separate from the Reader at the newsstands. Consequently, sometimes my columns don’t get published online for me to link… Continue Reading
Giving the Hellfighters their due September 2, 2021 I only have five previous posts that mention the Harlem Hellfighters. My Grandfather was one of their officers and his old Alma Mater, Park… Continue Reading
Dr. Seuss Goes to War August 30, 2021 I was once asked about my snow sculpting and explained that I always wanted to be a cartoonist. I just found the collection of… Continue Reading
The Tucker Carlson Fan Club, latest Reader Column August 6, 2021 Read it here: The Tucker Carlson Fan Club Continue Reading
Why anyone disputing the value of CRT needs to pull their head out of their ass and take a shower August 4, 2021 Here is the truth behind America’s systemic racism: In 1866, one year after the 13th Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama,… Continue Reading
Nightmares before Christmas December 22, 2020 I turned in a column to the Reader back to back one week following the next. It was modest and a bit of a… Continue Reading
#3 12/9/2020 Nixon Reconsidered…….connections December 9, 2020 I have sacrifices writing on the blog for half a year to, among other things, campaign for Congress as a local crank, maintain my… Continue Reading
Something uplifting November 6, 2020 A two minute reprise of a former NPR Story Corps program about the power of education: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931765825/encore-memories-of-great-grandmother-silvia Continue Reading
The Night Donald Trump Was Elected October 8, 2020 My latest column in the Reader, It begins: Last Friday night, 30 days before the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump was put on oxygen… Continue Reading
Campaign diary 7/28/2020 July 28, 2020 I’ll probably get around to writing up more reasons to vote for me but doing so interferes with my druthers……for my French corespondent “Druthers”… Continue Reading
A Conway ally gets the business from Stephen Colbert’s Crew July 15, 2020 I found it with this tag: “Rick Wilson squirms talking anti-Trump Super-PAC” Watch it first. Mr. Wilson no doubt expected to be hailed as… Continue Reading
A bridge too far? Part 1 July 11, 2020 I skipped out on the Internet town hall hosted by the Lincoln Project. I would have made the 90,001st attendee. I have posted a… Continue Reading
Stamps for my pen pal July 5, 2020 As I’ve noted before I have a French pen-pal who is teaching me French while I help S. polish up on English. S has… Continue Reading
Taking the traitors out of the Republican Party June 30, 2020 With about 45 days to strike some sort of viral gold I’ve had a couple campaign related projects in the works. In the meantime… Continue Reading
Should Andy Jackson be left seated on his bronze horse? June 23, 2020 Even in well motivated crowds some people go off the rails. Such is the case of the BLACK LIVES MATTER protests sweeping the nation…. Continue Reading
Juneteenth June 19, 2020 Donald Trump is now telling folks that thanks to him Americans are finally learning about Juneteenth: Trump, who has few African-American advisers in the… Continue Reading
Stars Bars and the KKK June 16, 2020 I won’t vouch for the accuracy of this Facebook found story of the Confederacy’s flag but I suspect its true. In any event, in… Continue Reading
S asks me to explain some puzzling US History June 14, 2020 After I sent S. the close up photo of my Lincoln tie S was troubled by the strange fact that Republican Abe Lincoln should… Continue Reading
June 6 June 6, 2020 One of the more bucolic photos of D-Day in a collection of about 400 recently found and placed on a Flickr account. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/06/d-day-photos-remembrance/ Continue Reading
