Going to bed with Peppa March 30, 2019 Last night for the second time I risked my cell phone’s melatonin messing blue light to watch little snatches of the cartoon Peppa the… Continue Reading
My Socialist Republican Column . . . March 28, 2019 . . . is online and on the newsstands. Continue Reading
I might like to be on the School Board to . . . March 27, 2019 . . . help with the search for a new Superintendent. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/education/4590383-gronseth-step-down-duluth-schools-superintendent I’ve heard good things about the new CFO Cathy Erickson. Continue Reading
“I have never met a Republican who wasn’t a socialist” March 27, 2019 I spent the late afternoon finishing a Not Eudora column sharing the same title as this post. Sorry, you will have to wait till… Continue Reading
Into my mental Expanse March 26, 2019 Up and out of bed for four hours. Until a few moments ago when I took a ten minute break to clear my mind… Continue Reading
I owe Nora, Sally and Josh an apology – Here it is… March 23, 2019 I don’t have it in me to watch Duluth School Board meetings so I relied on the story in the Duluth News Tribune to… Continue Reading
Club for Growth, Club against Donald March 23, 2019 I like a little schadenfreude as much as the next fellow and I’m particularly enjoying Mr. Kellyanne Conway‘s dead on deflation of President Trump…. Continue Reading
Politics without a fulcrum March 22, 2019 Here’s a video of American politics at its current best. levers are engineering at their most elementary and all school children of my generation… Continue Reading
An amendment to the Constitution I would like to propose March 21, 2019 Since the adoption of the Constituion’s Bill of Rights this is how the Second Amendment has read: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to… Continue Reading
The tortured writer March 20, 2019 I might also have titled this “the tortured reader.” (there are a ton of news stories I haven’t yet gotten to today) Most creative… Continue Reading
Putting God to the Test – My latest in the Reader March 14, 2019 It begins: The devil tested Jesus as he fasted in the wilderness for 40 days. The devil told him that if he jumped from… Continue Reading
White Savior March 10, 2019 A very funny send up by the Seth Meyer’s gang of a certain kind of popular movie: Continue Reading
Piss n’ Vinegar isn’t everything… March 10, 2019 I am especially fond of the early Charles Schultz Peanuts cartoons. Here is his first introducing Charlie Brown: And here is a delightful retrospective… Continue Reading
Piss n’ Vinegar Politics March 10, 2019 There is an asinine level of outrage on the American right over some female Congresswomen who have dared to tweak cherished tropes. For years… Continue Reading
Gosh, a weekly Reader column…..Can I manage it? March 8, 2019 The Reader took my latest submission Galaxies and Glaciers. Cool! I don’t even mind that it (the Reader’s version) begins “ast week…” Continue Reading
More books one purchased one read and another reviewed March 8, 2019 I had Claudia order this book five or six months ago. As she’s been stuck at home recuperating from her heart surgery she suggested… Continue Reading
The Children of Lincoln March 7, 2019 I found my latest book order in the mail today. Its about how former defenders of newly freed slaves in Minnesota burned out and… Continue Reading
More on Ilhan March 7, 2019 I am pleased that the new Congress members have stuck up for Ilhan Omar and added Islam to Judaism in a resolution opposing unfair… Continue Reading
Hollywood Influence and Juan Percent March 7, 2019 Although I disabled the comment function on my blog from the beginning in 2006 I did so with some reluctance. I like intelligent argument…. Continue Reading
Deferring to print March 6, 2019 Yesterday I seem to have decided to put more emphasis on print over pixels. I took the “Glaciers?” post and turned it into a… Continue Reading
