Times today…From real news sources, Buckley’s last 40 years and 30 trillion for the uber rich June 26, 2025 Last post Next post Oxfam estimates that over the last decade the world’s richest 1 percent have gotten 34 trillion richer. The Top three… Continue Reading
Osnos, China and Have Yachts June 22, 2025 Last post Next post I saw this book title yesterday in a NY Times news story and again today. I read it outloud to… Continue Reading
Cleaning my email of titles for topics February 28, 2025 Last post Next post Below are the potential titles of things I could write a post about her or a column about for the… Continue Reading
Everything that Harry writes that is not about the imminent destruction of Earth as we knew it is superfluous. But, he does prattle on at: www.lincolndemocrat.com November 15, 2021 The cumbersome title of this post is also my new tag line that will follow my Not Eudora columns for the Duluth Reader. It… Continue Reading
Some paranoia is deserved, some is financed with deep pockets August 4, 2021 I mention this book in next Friday’s column the Reader: I mention in the column that I only have 100 pages of it under… Continue Reading
A billion people December 2, 2020 This is a map showing the relative populations on Earth. There are two massive blobs. Far East Asia with about two billion people and… Continue Reading
Sympathy for high school grads October 30, 2020 Somewhere in my records I have the letter of apology a local judge sent me. I had just written a letter to the editor… Continue Reading
Pay attention to the man behind the curtain, Mitch McConnell is no hero April 14, 2020 A couple of posts ago I said some nice things about Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. What was written about him was apparently true. The… Continue Reading
I really like Jimmy Kimmel October 12, 2018 If you put Jimmy Kimmel in this blog’s search engine you will find four posts (now five) with the talk show host’s name in… Continue Reading
The PBS Vietnam Series gets me thinking September 18, 2017 I watched all the Stanley Karnow episodes in the 1990’s about Vietnam but I think Kevin Burns will bring a little more nuance at… Continue Reading
Pickle relish and ketchup on my Deep State, Please? July 12, 2017 Mother nature woke me at 4AM. The “Deep State” prevented me from going back into a deep sleep. Before I launch into my thoughts… Continue Reading
The Kushy life May 26, 2017 A New York Times editorial about a slum lord and his tenant and those awful “community organizers” like Barack Obama. A sample: Community organizers… Continue Reading
That hotel cleaner you didn’t tip March 17, 2017 “Maybe she wipes your child’s face at day care. Maybe he mops the floors at your church. Maybe she makes the beds in the… Continue Reading
A little bit of Post-Trump here in the Northland November 14, 2016 In my view America elected a demagogue rather than a scold. In fairness to Hillary Clinton, the unprecedented calls of “lock her up” at… Continue Reading
Staunch vs. stanch April 5, 2014 My buddy sent me a couple proof reading corrections for the last post in the second paragraph. One pointed out I meant stanch when… Continue Reading
Poverty in Minnesota January 23, 2014 Fascinating maps of Minnesota poverty by county in 1960, just before the War on it was declared, and now fifty years later. Continue Reading
The world the Catholic Church abhors February 28, 2013 Because it involves contraception and family planning: ” Continue Reading
Thank you Supreme Court… October 30, 2012 …for protecting Freedom of (anonymous) Speech. The consequences of Citizens United is well demonstrated by tonight’s Frontline program called “Big Sky Big Money. Continue Reading
One billionaire’s message to the poor September 1, 2012 Courtesy of Gina Rinehart, the richest woman on the planet, who inherited her family’s iron-ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion. “If you’re jealous of… Continue Reading
Eastwood wasn’t playing by Karl Rove’s playbook September 1, 2012 which is getting the billionaires to kill Obama with kindness – but not Todd Akin. On the final morning of the Republican National Convention,… Continue Reading