Most of the history we learned in school is on par with the news we get from CNN, and in podcast this series we shall be reexamining some of the great heroes and/or villains of the past 3000 years.
Once or twice a decade in the mass media—news mass-produced for the masses of consumers by the masses in the press—stories about secession movements flare up like a cheap match and then burn out. Most recently, we have heard about disgruntled people in the Pacific Northwest who want to break away from their masters in Seattle, Portland, and Sacramento and join with the sturdy yeoman of Idaho. How little they know! Washington today is Colorado yesterday, California the week before—and Idaho tomorrow. The progressive virus is not a paper tiger put together out of newsprint and television images: It is...
The Atlantic has an article wondering why old men run America, and why, in particular, a geezer who cannot tell his wife from his sister is the likely Democratic candidate.
Schumer and his cronies, like leftist Democrats since the New Deal, have used the Court, whenever they could, to strengthen the power of the central government, but, whenever the Supreme Court has been perceived as an obstacle to their plans to concert power in their own hands, they are tempted to threaten the Court.
A 21 minute podcast with Chef Garret exploring the wonderful world of cabbages and kings, broccoli and bums, turnip greens and turncoats….
I can’t speak for anyone else, of course, but I can barely sleep at night worrying about the Corona virus that has already infected nearly 70 (out of 300+ millions) Americans, and the incredible death rate world wide of somewhere between 1 to 3% of cases. As one of the elderly, I am supposed to be at several times higher the level of risk, if I come down with this flu-like disease. Trump-loving skeptics point to the tens of thousands of annual fatal cases of influenza, but what do they know? They’re not scientists like Nancy Pelosi and Anderson Cooper....
Neighbors, even in these postmodern times, have their uses. Who but the nosey neighbors will call the police if they observe strangers trying to enter your home when you are away? Who but a neighbor is at hand to lend you the ax or cup of sugar you need?
According to librarians, reading is a good thing, and it hardly matters what you read. On that principle, bad books are shoved off on unsuspecting children with goodness knows what deleterious effects. I half expect to see, before I depart, comic versions of Sade’s Justine and Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly. In general most of us read many too many books. I don’t mean simply that we read junk–I have read thousands of mystery novels, without a single blush. I mean we read too many books about books rather than books that are themselves a kind of reality.
Since the State of the Union Address, President Trump and Nancy Pelosi have been going at it hammer and tongs (though Pelosi would probably prefer a hammer and sickle match with Bernie) . The Buffoon-in-Chief is in great form, praising his supporters with childish epithets endlessly repeated and damning his enemies with more vigor, at least, though not with a wider vocabulary. Thriving on hatred, Donald Trump is like one of those Sci Fi monsters that grow stronger with every attack. Trumpzilla. Opposing the President with every fiber of her aging and malevolent being is the harridan whose daughter calls...
Robert E Lee, Poe, George Burns, Gordian III, Fellini, Stonewall Jackson, John Hancock, Francis Bacon, Neil Diamond, Stendahl, Walter Miller… Try to turn off before the concluding music
