I’m about to watch the PBS program on Joe McCarthy January 6, 2020 Today is not the first crisis of the Republican Party. As always the American Experience did justice to a slice of Americana. 70 years… Continue Reading
Meet the new member of the “no evil” clan December 16, 2019 If you couldn’t tell it by looking at my friend here, he’s pinching his nose tight. He’s not alone on my front yard. His… Continue Reading
The Reverie of a Busy Mind at 4 AM, December 3, 2019 December 5, 2019 My latest column for the Duluth Reader. Charcoal sketch of Daniel Marsh Welty by his wife, Georganne, circa 1960 Continue Reading
Dick Gastler, a remembrance on the 30th anniversary of… November 10, 2019 …the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Dick was my friend who lived two houses up 4th street from me and the fellow I took… Continue Reading
Back to the Reader November 8, 2019 Here’s my column in this week’s Reader: On Being a Student Until the Day I Die Continue Reading
Chernobyl November 2, 2019 A month before my Dad died in 1987 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a nuclear explosion that killed between 4,000 and 90,000 people… Continue Reading
The most frightening Halloween in U.S. History and me October 31, 2019 Today, Halloween, the Congress began its fourth serious attempt to impeach and possibly remove a President of the United States. I will not pledge… Continue Reading
From Russia with Love # 2 October 22, 2019 For one brief moment the United States led the Soviet Union to the doorstep of Democracy then Putin and his version of vulture capitalists… Continue Reading
Alex Jone’s disciple October 18, 2019 Someone on Facebook noted that Jim Fetzer (formerly of Duluth) just got whacked with a $450,000 defamation judgement. I replied that Fetzer didn’t care… Continue Reading
Confirmation of my comments about desegregation… October 18, 2019 …in the column found in the previous post. When I get my News Tribune delivered to my door I check several things that I… Continue Reading
As President Trump hints that civil war is imminent to save his sorry arse… September 30, 2019 … its worth paying attention to the man who put an end to the last one, General and President Ulysses S. Grant: “If we… Continue Reading
The dilemma of a writer, The advantage of a blogger September 26, 2019 The editors of the Duluth News Trib gave school board candidates a heads-up two weeks ago that we could send them a 500 word… Continue Reading
The humiliation of two skeksies and my modest ambitions September 25, 2019 By far the biggest political news of the Trump era came today in the humiliation of two skeksies. If the world is lucky those… Continue Reading
George S. Robb Center for the study of the Great War September 18, 2019 I haven’t figured out how to upload Facebook videos to my blog. This one came from the Historical Center named after my Grandfather. My… Continue Reading
Nine – Eleven Remembrance September 11, 2019 I am sure that shortly after 9/11 I posted my recollection of events as a spectator. I haven’t found them as yet so I’ll… Continue Reading
9/11 remembrance September 11, 2019 Maybe when the campaign is over I’ll push everything to the side and spend all my time on the darned book I’m hawking. But… Continue Reading
Kindred Spirits September 5, 2019 After delivering Grandsons to school I spent much of the morning with my head in the New York Times and the DNT. Additionally, a… Continue Reading
Ripping the skin off racism August 23, 2019 There is a fierce debate about whether Americans are still racists. The worst black harassing President since Woodrow Wilson (who kicked Blacks out of… Continue Reading
Dear Denmark, August 21, 2019 Dear Denmark, Please reconsider your hasty refusal to sell Greenland to the United States. Remember, our President is a genius, a very smart businessman… Continue Reading
Good Riddance to Lake Calhoun August 19, 2019 Minneapolitians were divided about the renaming of long-standing Lake Calhoun into Bde Maka Ska. I doubt that many Minnesotans even knew who John C…. Continue Reading
