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
Glaciers!!! March 5, 2019 I was going to use a different title for this as my previous post suggested. It was to be “Read this you climate denying… Continue Reading
Putting the patient thru her pace-making March 5, 2019 Claudia and I are almost through two weeks of convalescence. My part is nursemaid. I fleetingly thought of taking a picture of my sweetie… Continue Reading
Today’s Not Eudora Column – “Graham Crackers” February 28, 2019 Graham Crackers BTW: Not withstanding his appearance in another of my columns four weeks earlier I don’t really have a Nixon fixation. I suffer… Continue Reading
Where did the last two months go? February 28, 2019 I just now pulled out my 2019 calendar from its spot next to the computer. I’ve kept them by my side for a quarter… Continue Reading
The helpful distraction of snow February 20, 2019 My children are in town to sit beside their Mother in the ICU as she recovers from surgery. I am grateful. It gives me… Continue Reading
Serious Family News February 18, 2019 To my Eight loyal readers, I have had something on my mind for several weeks which helps explain the paucity of my posts. An… Continue Reading
A Weld in my future? February 16, 2019 I just caught a whiff of a challenge to Donald Trump in 2020 that greatly appealed to me. Skimming a couple of news stories… Continue Reading
Thank you Reader. My complete column is . . . February 15, 2019 . . . now on your website. Please put it in the next paper issue in its entirety. http://m.duluthreader.com/articles/2019/02/15/16051_you_have_my_sympathy_ilhan Continue Reading
I’m not happy. The Reader cut seven paragraphs from today’s Column February 14, 2019 I’m sure its an accident. Without the reader is tossed into an ocean without a view to the coast. Normally I don’t publish them… Continue Reading
You Have my Sympathy Ilhan (includes the seven paragraphs missing from today’s Reader) February 14, 2019 You Have My Sympathy Ilhan Prologue: Ilhan Omar, Minnesota’s new Islamic Congresswoman, has offered her “unequivocal” apology for twitting the fiercely pro-Israel Political Action… Continue Reading
Ilhan Omar, Stauber email, and using french while shoveling snow. February 13, 2019 Waking up at 3 this morning wasn’t so bad today because I hit the sack at 10 after an hour of practicing French. After… Continue Reading
