(A Memorial Day theme, cross-posted at VeteransTales.org, this is also one of the major themes of that entire site. Come show us some love.) In the mid 90s, before I began traveling to the Soviet Bloc regularly, and finding out…
Category: Elitism and Class
Famous Common People I Have Known, Earl Hodge and Federal Aid to Education
In my freshman year in high school, 1960, I participated in the Kentucky high school regionals of what was called The State Speech Festival. Organized like Spelling Bee competitions, the best of the best at the regionals would be selected…
Kimba Wood; There is no Joyrider’s Exemption on the American Civics Test
I’m tooling up I-81 in New York, going from Binghamton to Schenectady. Moderate traffic, speed limit 70, but as the old saying goes, I keep pace with traffic….which is closer to 80. My rule has always been to hang in…
David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and the Vanishing Bloody Nose
A lamentation As you know, I’ve always been a big believer in the curative effect of the bloody nose, especially since, despite all my mother’s efforts to have me learn the path of the straight-and-narrow in Sunday School and church,…
The Audition for the OCCUPY and ANTIFA 2020 Edition has Begun
I’ll keep this short. It’s axiomatic that the American Left, and therefore, also the Democrat Party, NEVER does anything spontaneously. For those of you new to political optics, you got a taste of this with the aftermath of the Parkland…