Something I read this morning referenced Paul Johnson’s “ Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (1992), specifically the chapter America’s Suicide Attempt, about the late 60s and their sequelae. These days, everybody’s talkin Saigon, the helicopters from the roof of the embassy. Memory tends to collapse events, I have found. In … Continue reading The Possible →

2010. Disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Billions of dollars given by generous Americans. I thought it should have been more than enough money to restore the Haitians to the conditions under which they had been living, which was in huts made of cement blocks and green corrugated plastic roofing. Really that couldn’t have been too difficult. … Continue reading Haiti Has No Home Here →

I probably wrote about the date here before. So you know it’s a bad-luck day because on Friday October 13, 1307, the Knights Templar —that militant order who protected pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land and also developed a banking system for them—were arrested en masse by King Phillip the Fair of France … Continue reading Friday the Thirteenth →

The 70s were the Dems good Ol’ days. First: Watergate! They got to excoriate the hated Nixon who had just won re-election in a landslide. They COULD NOT LOSE in 1976. Not even with Candidate Malaise. we’re still dealing with the legacy of that, as all Dems and RINOS aspire to bask in the nationwide … Continue reading This 70s Show →

I just thought I’d report to you in case anybody out there is as pathologically confused as I am. GET THE VAX! GET THE VAX! GET THE VAX!!! we keep hearing. yuh—and fully half of the US population has done so. okay… But we also keep hearing: Delta variant SURGING! Wear a mask! Get a … Continue reading A Domestic Tiff →

I have received the double jab. My BMD was anxious for us both to do so in order to recover our freedom. (Yeah, so looks like that ain’t happenin’…..but it’s okay, it was worth the, ah, shot. ). I don’t regret it. I don’t have that much of a future (although I did recently decide … Continue reading Dinah Sore….. →

if they’re gonna extend the moratorium on evictions yet again, they should also have a moratorium on collecting property taxes from owners of rental properties, and on commercial foreclosures. People. Are. SO. “Foxtrotting”. STUPID.

I reread some posts and the comment threads that came up as “related” to our current ones. I don’t know what algorhythm (how do you spell that? My spellcheck sez this is wrong.) picks out and mentions prior posts that seem to be somehow connected ….but anyway I’m grateful for it. Such an open, generous … Continue reading Love is… →

I just have a few minutes before I hafta cook dinner, but I need to share: I’m writing an article on Prez Nideb’s determined attempt to eliminate single family zoning in America’s suburbs. As usual I surround any issue I decide to write about by reading a plethora of related articles until I realize I … Continue reading Preprandial Epiphany: saving our Country before dinner →

I’m so disgusted I can’t even think of a punchy title. Did you see the Capitol Police, and Kinzinger and Schiff, st the January 6 hearings? The police droned on about how traumatized they were, how they needed counseling for months, how they will never be the same. People yelled at them and called them … Continue reading Buncha Wimps! →