Poetry: Hog Killing on the South Santee 1983
I wrote this fifty years ago after taking part in a hog-killing. We did eat every scrap of the pork.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: No Relation
It is an irony of fate, like something out of a Shakespeare history play, that the daughter of a tyrant should have married a man with the same surname as his archenemy and likely nemesis, yet Mrs. Zelensky is not in the least fictional.
“ALL WE ASK IS TO BE LET ALONE”
The cost of living continues to rise as we of the working class awake to “another day, another dollar,” knowing full well we must do so in order to support ourselves, our families, and the growing number of unemployed who rely on us for their “benefits.”
One Precious Right
WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS
Katrine Jean-Pierre and other spokesthings for the regime are showing their contempt for the lives of citizens by politicking the school shooting in Nashville.
Westerns Episode 4: Rio Grande (1950)
In this episode Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss Rio Grande (1950) and the sort of story of national healing that it, in part, represented, combined with a broken family being reunited and some good ol’ cowboys and injuns gunfights. Homework for next episode is a double feature: watch Red River and The Furies.
Cobra-chickens, Roadkill, and Ingredients
It is not surprising that where Canada geese are protected, they defile golf courses, beaches, and attack cyclists in parks. One of my coworkers from Ottawa refers to them as cobra-chickens. Low flying slow heavy geese do however save my pride at the end of a lackluster deer hunting season.
America a Captive Nation: The Subjugation of English
It is in the nature of alien invaders, if they arrive in sufficient numbers, to impose their language on the conquered people, and it is in the nature of ideological revolutions to distort and reshape the language as a tool for imposing their revolution.
Wednesday’s Child: Semiotics of the Kitchen
In Soviet times, “nationality” – meaning race – was, just like a subject’s given name and surname, a legally obligatory declaration. The famous “Fifth Line” on his internal passport was part of his destiny, perhaps the most important part, because once he was “Russian,” “Jew” or “Tatar,” his education, employment, and other material opportunities were set in stone. He was labeled for life.
To the Halls of Montezuma Again? Will Biden Bomb Mexico?
I’m horrified by the kidnapping of four Americans and the killing of two of them in Mexico. If you live near the border, you know such things happen.
Biden-Garland Outlaw Jokes
In 2016, Douglass Mackey was telling jokes under the nom de Twitter “Rocky Vaughn,” after the character played by Charlie Sheen in the 1989 movie “Major League.”
