Why Geezers Rule
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.
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Super Tuesday – 2020 US Election, Episode 2
In this brief episode, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss the Super Tuesday results.
America, America
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....
2020 US Election, Episode 1
In this occasional series, Dr. Fleming and Stephen will discuss the state of the 2020 US Election.
Trivializing Literature, Virtualizing Reality, Part Two
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?
Trivializing Literature, Virtualizing Reality, Part One
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.
How J-Low Can You Go?
I’ve been hearing complaints about the indecency of the Super Bowl halftime performances. What am I missing? Half naked women wiggling their back sides and writhing on a stripper’s pole? This is the America we live in. This is mass entertainment at its best, the realization of the American Dream. Does anyone really think there is some line that one one can draw between the pornograpny of cable TV and the pornography of the NFL? Of course there are differences between XXX porno flicks and the pop performances of Madonna, Britney, Lady Gaga, J-Lo, and Shakira, but the one...
Turning Green Into Gold, Conclusion
Before answering this question, we should remind ourselves that one Leftist revolution does not so much supplant its predecessors as absorb them. Marxism absorbed liberalism’s attack on religion, monarchy, and social status, but it also prepared the ground for feminism and globalism.
The Bolton Creature
John Bolton, turning on the President who hired him? Who could have imagined such a thing? Well, just about anyone who knew anything about John Bolton, an insufferable boor, an ego without a human personality, a man with a silly mustache who talks crazy.
Letter From a Kentucky County by Jerry Salyer
What is fundamentally objectionable is not the man himself, who had his virtues and insights as well as vices, just like the rest of us; what is objectionable is the militant, uncritical cult which has grown up around his memory; what is downright contemptible are the slavish gestures made by various “Christian conservative” pundits seeking to hitch their wagons to said cult.
