What does it profit a man…? July 23, 2024 With 21 days to go I woke up after three hours and 13 minutes. My sleep o meter tells me I dreamed (was in… Continue Reading
Pants on fire, Many many pants July 17, 2024 Whether a President whose son in law is Jewish can be a fascist or not I’ll leave up to others. As I’ve written before… Continue Reading
Countdown 43 That MF Steve Bannon July 1, 2024 David Brooks wrote this piece for Today’s NY Times: My Unsettling Interview With Steve Bannon Bannon is Trump’s muse. Trump is Bannon’s useful idiot…. Continue Reading
Welcome to my readership whoever you are March 16, 2024 I have only sporadically checked the stats for my blog in recent years but lately I’ve begun doing it more regularly. After two weeks… 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
How hatred of Government became hatred of taxes became the modern GOP February 14, 2024 This screen capture from the intro to one of my favorite French detective shows Les petits meurtres d’Agath Christie fits with my last paragraph… Continue Reading
Don Quixotic vs. Don the Destroyer February 8, 2024 According to the Snowbizz Page I posted this photo to I was planning on running for Congress again in 2012. Also, according to this… Continue Reading
If it ain’t illegal it’s legal, How short of stealing an election Republicans stay in power February 7, 2024 I’ve been going through my bulging Flickr page looking for images to put in my campaign book. Its quite a compendium of the stuff… Continue Reading
The Genius of the mentally incomplete Donald Trump February 1, 2024 Or how I take notes for future reference. I don’t have a top hat like Abe Lincoln to stick notes in but I have… 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
Santayana November 10, 2023 For several years I made and occasionally passed out a business card that quoted the philosopher George Santayana on the back side. The quote:… Continue Reading
22 pages of notes…. August 24, 2023 On the Fox 2024 Republican Presidential Debate sans the frontrunner. I almost finished off a yellow legal pad taking notes on this curiosity. I… 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
The Nine…..and the mirror image November 24, 2022 I finished my column early because of a stepped up Reader deadline. It seems printers like to enjoy their holidays too…..not to mention editors…. 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
Paper Ballots This week’s reader column November 4, 2022 It begins: Last week I noted that in 1860 even in the Southern states, where Abe Lincoln was kept off the presidential ballot, no… Continue Reading
Two Bibles and more October 15, 2022 After my foray into Native American history I am going to change course. Claudia is now reading Black Elk Speaks and we were chatting… Continue Reading
The War Against Morphodites October 5, 2022 I’m not sure this column will make it to the Reader’s Internet site so I share it with you here. The Reader had a… Continue Reading