I agree with Coleman Hughes that the images we see on videos such as George Floyd’s death tap into older images in a way that arouses emotion rather than logic: An article written by Hughes can be found here. Hughes … Continue reading →
But the left doesn’t care. Why should they? Lies are their daily bread. And they work. I wager that a few months from now, most Democrats will still think the photo’s real, and even if they don’t they still will … Continue reading →
One of the few good things to have happened during this pandemic is the creativity demonstrated out there among people at large. I love to watch comic videos about the shutdown on YouTube, for example, most of them made by … Continue reading →
…for a beautiful weekend, here’s a photo I took the other day at the ocean:
Continue reading →…visiting friends. I also had a yen to see sunset over Lake Champlain, and just to get away and do something a bit different. I had a good meal. The weather was fabulous. I saw a fascinating exhibit of the … Continue reading →
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →
I suppose at this point, realistically speaking, it’s something of all of them. I wouldn’t have even asked the question if Notre Dame hadn’t burned, but now that the rebuilding is being planned, it seems relevant. As commenter “Snow on … Continue reading →
These are filmed interviews with the elderly. Not the present-day elderly, but the elderly from almost a century ago. Most of these clips were made around 1930, which means that a lot of the interviewees were born in the 1840s. … Continue reading →
My great-grandfather holding my grandmother: My great-grandfather holding my mother: He died just a couple of years before I was born.
Continue reading →It was done by a process called autochrome, and it was taken in 1908. Looks like a painting to me:
Continue reading →This news may not be of any interest to you, but it’s of interest to me, because of the fondness I bear in my heart for the old MoMA, the one that existed before I was aware it even had … Continue reading →
No year is the same as any other year, but this fall the New England foliage has been kind of odd. Somewhat muted, for one thing. And we’ve had lots of rain, which always means that the early, more brilliant … Continue reading →