It’s depressing but not the least surprising to learn that our students are abysmally ignorant of civics, so ignorant that few could pass a basic citizenship test. A political science professor at Suffolk Community College in New York administered one, … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” linked this website purporting to list the greatest books. It uses an algorithm based on a a group of 130 other lists, and comes up with some obvious choices as well as some curious ones. Even some of … Continue reading →
“SEO” stands for “Search Engine Optimization,” which is apparently one of the main keys to Google rankings. I’m lousy at it, and so I decided to install a plugin that supposedly assists in that endeavor. One of my main problems … Continue reading →
Commenter “stan” says, regarding how the left has been undermining our liberties and using lawfare to silence the opposition they label as the enemy, “What’s it going to take for good people to see what is happening in plain sight?” … Continue reading →
I first heard the song “Little Girl Blue” when I was in high school, sung by Nina Simone. My high school boyfriend introduced me to her records, and I was immediately taken with her unique musical style. No one sounded … Continue reading →
…visiting family and friends. Yesterday was a long journey, and the easiest part was the plane ride. But the bus that takes me to the airport had changed one of its policies unexpectedly. The airport was unusually crowded and I … Continue reading →
Commenter “Mac” expresses what I’ve been feeling too: I have a sense that politically, culturally, socially, things are *not* going to be ok. Things are *not* going to work out. The America that we knew is not going to survive. … Continue reading →
I spent hours today – literally hours – on the phone, attempting to cancel a certain cellphone service I have been paying for and wasn’t using. I’m not going to spend hours writing about it, only to bore myself and … Continue reading →
I just published one of those mammoth posts that ended up being about three times as wordy as I thought it would be, and taking five times as much time to write. That happens sometimes. I had originally planned a … Continue reading →
In a post I wrote earlier today about Germany’s power problems, there was a link with a photo of a low-water Rhine and the caption: “A ferry cruises past the partially dried riverbed of the Rhine river in Bingen, Germany … Continue reading →
Here’s a new piece on a well-worn topic: Keyboard conflicts occur every day across the United States. A not-infrequent outcome is that for political reasons, people cast away into outer cyberdarkness friends and even relatives: they are “unfriended.” Unfriending represents … Continue reading →
[NOTE: [Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Part V can be found here. Part VI can be found here. Part VII can … Continue reading →