Blog Housekeeping cont. February 26, 2017 For the past few days I’ve been attacking the posts that have such nonsense as these in them: €œ,‘€, –, é, €™,  I… Continue Reading
’ Blog Housekeeping February 22, 2017 For several years I’ve been greatly annoyed that bugs sneaked into my blog posts. They are punctuation bugs. Maybe you’ve noticed them especially if… Continue Reading
Shall We Dance? January 26, 2017 I figure that I have several audiences of this blog. The one that is preeminent to me is – me. It’s not just the… Continue Reading
Homage to Andrew Sullivan September 21, 2016 My Buddy sent me a link to a commentary by my all time favorite blogger, Andrew Sullivan, in which he takes oodles and oodles… Continue Reading
Mummies June 15, 2016 Dear Readers, There is a movie out based on a book I haven’t read. Its about the relationship between Thomas Wolfe, a protean American… Continue Reading
78 visitors spent over an hour reading this blog… May 6, 2016 …over the past five days! Oh, the wonder of my blog stats. Wish it could tell me who you were……No – never mind. I… Continue Reading
Correction on last post April 27, 2016 In the previous post I mentioned that Rep. Erik Simonson was flying in to St. Louis with Denfeld principal Sconniers to root for the… Continue Reading
“Damn but I am paranoid. I will fess up on my blog pronto.” April 14, 2016 The quote above come from me. I just texted it to Superintendent Gronseth. It is about the first post in the Fallout series which… Continue Reading
Repairing the Board’s wounded reputation April 11, 2016 I just watched the first half of Ken Burns biopic on Jackie Robinson on PBS. It is a reminder of the world I was… Continue Reading
Ki boots on the ground March 19, 2016 My buddy noted the misspelling in the last post of kibbutz and chided me for not knowing better because I had just been in… Continue Reading
Lincolndemocrat2 – when the original was comatose March 17, 2016 Until Lincolndemocrat was up and running again I began blogging at a temporary site on March 2nd. You can catch the ten or so… Continue Reading
About those Christmas puzzles March 14, 2016 Hallelujah! I’m back….and I figured out how to restore my categories and archives. I’ll bring the posts from the temporary blog back here and… Continue Reading
Blog Puzzles March 14, 2016 What the hell happened to Lincolndemocrat? Search me. I’m only the author of the site for the past ten years. Last I knew I… Continue Reading
Wild Swans and Mao and AWWWWWWW my old website is down July 9, 2015 Claudia and I finished a weighty biography tonight, Wild Swans. We apparently acquired it in February but only began reading it May 29th. Today’s… Continue Reading
and some welcome literary criticism February 13, 2015 Regarding this 1400 word post one of my new corespondents offered me some literary criticism. I was delighted. It was the first literary analysis… Continue Reading
“Where this blog is headed” revisited – plus a little piss and vinegar February 10, 2015 Lincoln democrat is 108 months old minus a week or two. This is its 12,830th post. Its the diary I share with whoever is… Continue Reading
Retiring Bloggers February 1, 2015 My Buddy sent me an email recently that I took to be dancing on the grave of my only serious blog addiction. Andrew Sullivan… Continue Reading
A Memory confirmed for me … January 26, 2015 …not for our recent Chairman. Art Johnston and I have a similar problem. We never seem to throw anything away. The clear evidence of… Continue Reading
Teasers January 21, 2015 From an email this morning: Mr Welty, Good morning sir… I was perusing your blog this morning and catching up on the disaster that… Continue Reading
11-14-14 ALL CAPS, PART 5 – SOME CLOSURE BEFORE 11-15-14 ARRIVES November 14, 2014 I haven’t counted the words in today’s series of All CAPS posts. Its not nearly the 10,000 words I’d imagined a day ago but… Continue Reading
