None Dare Calll it “Love of Country”
It has been reported by Josh Dawsey of Politico, (and no real fan of Donald Trump’s administration) that Dana Boente, an Obama appointee, will now be handling the investigation into the “Trump Administration and...
The Daily Poke in the Eye: Notes on the Righteous “Screw You”
In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on "Heroes", Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term "skeptical dilettantism" to describe how that army of ne'er-do-well, half-baked intellectuals will collectively move to destroy...
(November Update) 30-day Covid Death-Rate, Not too Bad, Actually
Please see our October 18 Update, here.
As expected Deaths rose over the past 30-day period, October 18- thru- November 16. But nothing compared to the "case" rate which I continue to think are way...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...