Falling Rocks Break Everything
Covid didn’t stop us, but a closed bridge will. The other kids on this side of the border are withdrawing from the school entirely for the semester.
Category: Feature
Can She Do That? New Mexico Governor Suspends Gun Carry Laws
Gov. Grisham’s orders raise many questions and concerns from both sides of the aisle. The most obvious is, “Why is she doing this now?”
9/11 at 22: Are We Forgetting?
May the memories of the 2,977 murdered on September 11, 2001 always be for a blessing. This must never be forgotten.
BRICS Without Mortar
Despite its recent expansion, the BRICS ‘alliance’ is nothing more than vaporware. Claims of the death of the American-led world order have been greatly exaggerated.
Mini-Throughput: Masks, Redux
I don’t like masks but the hysteria over them seems fantastically out of proportion. I’m also not sure that we need to bring back mask mandates under the present circumstances.
POETS Day! Revisiting Clampitt with Cummings In Mind
There’s a valid complaint about poetry written beginning somewhere in the middle of the last century that claims modern poetry is written for a smaller and smaller audience of attuned readers
Let Joe Biden Be Joe Biden: Voter Reactions To President Biden’s Events
I showed two videos of Joe Biden to a group of 50 voters who were in their early to mid-20s from different areas of Massachusetts.
Chrome & Punishment
Why are so many cars getting stolen? Police and city officials point to this: Millions of Kias and Hyundais are ridiculously easy to steal.
Don’t Look Now But Ukraine is Winning
One of the major outcomes of the 2024 election will be whether we and the West keep up the logistical support that will allow them to keep winning.
The Brand is the Point: Voting Against Your Interests to Stay in Your Tribe
Normally I’d sit back, decry the situation in Mississippi, vote, and then go get a good stiff drink. I may have to do so again this year.
I’m Worried About the Gadsden Flag Kid
Adult right-wing influencers are parading the Gadsden Flag kid around the internet like an idol, a life no 12-year-old is ready for.
Abortion ‘Trafficking’ and the Constitution (Updated)
You don’t have to be pro-abortion to oppose the restrictive intrusion that anti-”trafficking” laws impose on individuals and their right to travel.
The Spanish-American War and the ‘Empire By Default’
If you like somewhat obscure history, “Empire by Default” is a very readable and comprehensive account of the Spanish-American War.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Starfield
Jaybird makes his Starfield character: “You have a spaceship and a mission: GET YOUR MACGUFFIN TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANT IT! I’m hooked”
The State of the Republican Primary
Who won and who lost in the post-debate polling? The short answer is that the debate didn’t do much to change the needle.
POETS Day! Thomas Hardy
Biographer Claire Tomalin claims the death of his wife signals “the moment when Thomas Hardy became a great poet,” and calls the Emma poems the “finest and strangest celebrations of the dead in English poetry.”
How to Make People Care About Democratic Achievements
Every liberal pundit has their own opinion for what Democrats should be doing differently.
A Swing and a Bunch of Near Misses
There is a saying in the aviation industry that the Federal Aviation Regulations are written in blood. Many of our rules are based on behaviors or accidents that have killed people in the past.
The Maleficent Gordon Gee and His Malfunctioning Money Machine
Money covers a multitude of sins. A funding crisis reveals those sins in ways the sheltered professional education class is not going to like.
POETS Day! Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg has a lot of fans. I’m not among them. I’m also not certain if many of his proclaimed fans have read his poetry.
