I just had power restored after about an 18-hour power outage occasioned by yesterday’s storm. I’m more used to power outages in the winter, from ice storms, than in the summer. It’s somewhat easier to keep warm without heat than … Continue reading →
Some days I wake up and it takes a while for it to hit me that so many Americans seem to have lost their minds. Oh, I’m not talking about the small number of people who are doing the burning … Continue reading →
I’m not what you’d call a fashionista. But I’ve always liked clothes, and I like to look nice. Over the years, fashion has gotten less pretty and less formal. I used to have a raft of skirts and dresses, and … Continue reading →
Commenter “Eva Marie” writes: Those of us who support Pres. Trump need to change the mind of one voter – to either vote for Trump instead of Biden or vote 3rd party instead of Biden. I did this prior to … Continue reading →
Or perhaps they already have. I’ve written before about how a course I took in college on Russian Intellectual History stopped me from joining the left in the late 60s. Here’s an excerpt: It was there I learned – without … Continue reading →
As Kathy Shaidle writes in her discussion of the life of Valerie Solanas, the woman who wrote an anti-male manifesto and then came very close to murdering Andy Warhol in that annus horribilis 1968: Yesterday’s mental illness is today’s social … Continue reading →
Sorry about the late start. I had a lovely night last night. It featured a pretty severe gall bladder attack. That may be Too Much Information, but let me just say this is a rather new affliction for me, one … Continue reading →
Nearly impossible to do – except in the wrong direction. That’s been my observation as well. And no – lo-carb or Taubes or Atkins doesn’t work for me nor for a lot of other people. I’m happy for you if … Continue reading →
Even though political speeches are not my thing, I watched Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore last night (you can find a video and transcript at American Digest). It was a well-crafted story of America’s past and a pledge about America’s … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post from many years ago. It was written in the springtime during a visit to New York. Reading it now, it seems almost archaic in some ways – in particular, the crowds … Continue reading →
Give them numbers. That way the names will never have to be changed as the historical revisionists expand their targets – at least, I doubt that numbers will ever be their targets, although I wouldn’t put it past them. When … Continue reading →
Here’s an article that’s well worth reading. Towards the end the author says that if you think that things have gone too far – that wokeness has become “a danger to the traditional American understanding of civic law and liberty” … Continue reading →