Did you watch President Trump’s rally in Georgia last night? It reminded me of the way TV shows used to be when I was a kid. The newscaster or “host” would periodically have to turn to the camera to remind people to pay attention, for his sake, to the boring Ol’ commercial interests which were, … Continue reading And Now A Word From Our Sponsors… →

You Can Scry If You Want To! There have been few reported convictions under 18 Pa.C.S.A. 7104 and its predecessor. In Com. v. Viscount, 118 Pa. Super 595, 179 A. 858 (1935), a woman was convicted of fortune-telling for promising a person that she could make a man love her and pretending, for gain, that … Continue reading Fines and Portents: Pennsylvania’s Criminalization of Fortune-Telling and Magical Rituals (3 of 3) →

Pennsylvania’s Past: The Pow-wow Leaving aside the issues of healing and prophecy, what brought all of the above magical activities to the minds of our state’s Legislature in 1861, and led it to leave the archaic language unchanged in 1939 and 1972? I suspect it may be the widespread practice of German folk magic, the … Continue reading Fines and Portents: Pennsylvania’s Criminalization of Fortune-Telling and Magical Rituals (Part 2 of 3) →

This is about a, ah, conversation, for want of a better term, which we had with our bedroom ‘Alexa”:device this morning. (Don’t bother telling me I don’t know what a “bot” is, I’m already aware.) Anyway my BMD started deviling “her”. Q. Alexa are you female? A. I’m artificially intelligent and I have no sex. … Continue reading Baiting the Bot →

No, I don’t know what it means either. It’s a line from Auld Lang Syne. It’s hard to say you “like” the song Auld Lang Syne, because when you hear it, the party’s over. It’s like Good Night Ladies. The holiday is known in Scotland as Hogmanay. It’s is supposed to bring good luck for … Continue reading ….Tak a Right Gude Willy Waught →

So now we learn that Anthony Warner’s girlfriend told the FBI back in August that he was building a bomb in an SUV. Agents went there, saw the now-infamous SUV, knocked on the door, but y’know, nobody home, so...... Incredible: Lisa was getting Strzok-fucked, Flynn was being entrapped, Mueller was assembling his team of 17 … Continue reading Federal Bureau of Instigation →

I ‘m sure you heard some time during the last 4 years about a prophetic book about “Barron Trump”, written in the late nineteenth century. Well, being who and what I am, I received a copy for Christmas! Here’s all you need to know about Ingersoll Lockwood’s Baron Trump collection. Two books, Travels and Adventures … Continue reading I Read It, So You Don’t Have To…. →

Today I am at last unsubscribing from all the political and ideological emails I’ve been getting since 2016. I didn’t ask for a lot of ‘em, but I didn’t mind them; it made me feel au courant. Since November 3, I have gotten more, not less: Save the Senate! Help Kelly! Help David! Help The … Continue reading Disengaging →

I’ve been telling people for a few years now that I’m a legal journalist, and I’ve been spending hours on various blog sites where (some) people seemed to like my stuff, said they did, anyway. This month, I had my 10th legal article published, about Pennsylvania’s criminal fortune+telling statute. And I received a fan letter … Continue reading Today, I Am a Writer! →