Judging the “Expert Class” in Times of Crisis, the John Cleese Axiom
A few weeks ago I posted a short 3-minute clip of John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, as he introduced his 2020 comedy tour. I had planned to see him in Richmond this Fall,...
Famous Un-Common People I Have Known, Jefe
(Note: I wrote this a few days ago under the assumption Jefe was no longer able to correspond and eve have passed away. He wrote me yesterday from Hawaii he was just fine, Thank...
Famous Common People I Have Known, Miss Spassky, the Little Sparrow
My own school closing down, I spent my last three years of high school in another coal camp a few miles up the creek.
I had many adventures there since I was still a virgin...
Famous Common Places I Have Known, Ma Martin’s on North Lime
Rick Wilson's really poor affectation of hillbilly mannerisms and slang put me in mind of one of my fondest memories of my college days, a bar on the other side of Lexington, Kentucky where...
A Brief Natural History of Historians; Telling a Horse from a Mule
While people are being hornswoggled about the good intentions of journalists, they also should consider similar intentions of some historians. You see, there are the historians who report insights and facts about the past, and there are the journalists who then bake...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...