WHO AM I? The fact that he became President shows just how broke the political system was; The fact that he could even be considered for president shows how broken the Culture itself was; Who? Barack Obama? Bill Clinton, or…
The Daily Poke, Oct 7, 2020: The Covid Mask and Laziness
(OK, I missed a day.) By now everyone knows where the Covid-19 vulnerabilities lay; the aged and infirm, especially when both apply to the same person. Something like 80%+ of America’s deaths belong to that one group…that number even soaring…
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 anyone of genius who enters their…