Speak, the People!

November 8. To me it’s special,when election day falls on the 8th; that is my mother’s birthday and my parents’ wedding anniversary. It used to be a dies irae, a day of judgment, By the wee hours of the next morning, everything would be changed, all things new. You couldn’t help being excited. “Send but … Continue reading Speak, the People!

About the Atlantic’s Covid 19 â€œAmnesty”

Everybody’s talkin’ about the article in the Atlantic Magazine which says “we” must forgive the mistakes made during Covid (their name is legion) and,ny’know, pull together and move on. At one point the author relates that her family took hikes in masks and her ten year old son screamed at anyone they passed on the … Continue reading About the Atlantic’s Covid 19 â€œAmnesty”

I was in Prison and Ye Visited Me


Y’ever think about that line? What with Senate candidate Fetterman making it a cause cĂ©lebre to empty Pa’s prisons (He oughta be called Unfetterman, Hee Hee) I’ve been thinking of it lately. I always have thought we have waaay too many people in prison, waaay too much behavior criminalized
.but that isn’t my point here. My … Continue reading I was in Prison and Ye Visited Me


Deed Man Walking (last of x)

How Say You? All metrics traditionally relevant wouldindicate that HOAs have the power topreserve existing single-family detacheddwelling communities. They represent awealthy, diversified, large and exponentiallyincreasing demographic. Additionally, whilepaying lip service to freedom of use, enjoyment and alienation of real property, decisional law in our commonwealth to dategenerally enforces restrictive covenants.As to the question posed in … Continue reading Deed Man Walking (last of x)

Djellaba Democracy

ohhh , I’m so happy about what’s going on in Dearborn, Mich: Muslim parents mobbing the school board meetings to protest LGBTQ and transgender books and “education”. “intersectionality” has its limits, (as anybody who sincerely believes anything has always known: Duh!) and now, we’re hitting the barrier headlong, like a crash dummy (exactly like that). … Continue reading Djellaba Democracy

“We will overcome the environmentalist assault on single family homes.”

Edward Ring has an article up on the American Greatness site today: How Republicans can Achieve Super-majority Status—and the sentence quoted above is one of the “radical” propositions he says we must assert to do so. My article Deed Men Walkin’, which Simon has graciously been serializing here, attempts to expose that “asault”, which the … Continue reading “We will overcome the environmentalist assault on single family homes.”

Deed Man Walking (5 of x)

Home(s) of the Brave?In Pennsylvania, there are over 6,800homeowners associations. Residents pay$2.5 billion a year to maintain theircommunities. Homes in communityassociations are generally valued at least4% more than other single-family homes.And 47,000 Pennsylvanians serve as volunteers on the boards of HOAs (in caseyou’ve ever wondered what happened toall the student council officers you knewin high … Continue reading Deed Man Walking (5 of x)

Deed Men Walkin: Back then, individual home ownership was the solution; presently, it is often seen as problem.

But if R-1 zoning is moribund, what aboutresidential “planned communities”? Theyhave an inner redoubt: the declaration ofcovenants, easements and restrictions to The Pennsylvania Lawyer 37 May/June 2022which all owners contractually agree, andthe provisions of which are referenced inevery deed: large lots, one single-familydwelling per lot, no other uses involvinggreater density nor, heaven forfend, anybusiness or … Continue reading Deed Men Walkin: Back then, individual home ownership was the solution; presently, it is often seen as problem.