I have heard that now, the city of Cairo has engulfed the Plateau of Giza, where the three great Pyramids and the Sphinx stood in splendid isolation until the last century. I’m lucky enough to have visited them twice. The first time was with my family, as a callow teen. We stayed at the Shepheards’ … Continue reading For Nanda: Pyramids Past →

So I see Lori Loughlin has knuckled under and pled guilty. She has seen the light, after a demonstration of what happens to criminal defendants who obstinately refuse to admit guilt and insist on their constitutional right to trial by jury. As soon as she said she wouldn’t plead, she was hit with a barrage … Continue reading Lori in Line →

Y’ever wonder about that long narrow brooch Pelosi always wears? It’s a mace, defined as a club-like weapon of war, an armor breaker, with a sharp pointed spikes at the tip. Well, that’s layin’ it on the line. Break out your steel bonnets, all you descendants of the border reivers! (That’s Lt.Col McTemplar and ALL … Continue reading Pin-surrection →

America has gone insane. Yeah, I know you’re thinking “Tell us sump’n we don’t know!” Okay: masks don’t work! Or did you know that? Think about it: we’re, talkin’ microbes here. When you suck in air, which is tortuously hard to do wearing even one of those party-favor lite paper masks, the virus is tiny … Continue reading The Emperor’s New Mask →

A few weeks ( or was it only days) ago, we had a “ study”proving that fresh air’n’ sunshine kill the Covid! Yay!! But that couldn’t be allowed to stand, it might result in American life getting back to normal before November. So this morning, lo and behold: yet another “study”proving that no, warm sunny … Continue reading Study Hell →

“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told!/I hunger to build them anew, and sit on a green knoll apart/With the Earth and the sky and the water remade like a casket of gold/For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.” (Yeats, … Continue reading A Few Lines about How Poetry Feels →

This is prompted by ST’s post Girls, ugh! And my title, of course, refers to the reason we all don’t remember anything from when we were babies or toddlers. I don’t think anybody really knows the reason for the phenomenon. I think (and I hope to hear from you about this, readers!) I’m kinda a … Continue reading Infantile Amnesia →