(I want to dedicate this film review to Lady Penguin and JadedByPolitics, old friends from the Obama days, and my early days of RedState.com. We didn’t use the term “influencer” in 2006, but it was clear there was an urge…
Category: How Things Work
“It is French”
First Part “Schtick”— from the Yiddish: A comic theme or gimmick, first introduced on stage by Mark Twain The story goes that Mark Twain had invested heavily into the publishing of Ulysses S Grant’s autobiography, but which had been victimized…
Russia-Bad vs Ukraine-Bad, and the “I Can Train Monkeys to Make Underwear” thesis of Post-Modern Business
Part 2 As I related in Part 1, I came to Kentucky by accident in 1969, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian lawyer. Only Jimmy Carter, who…
Essential American Dumb-Quackery
Natural law versus natural choices gone wrong Part I: When facts hurt. On August 23, 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin police shot and wounded Jacob Blake while attempting to arrest him. A riot ensued staged by Black Lives Matter. Two days later,…
Killing Rosebushes, How Things Work in Nature by St George Frederick
An old pal, I’d been holding onto this for several years, hoping St George (that’s really his name) would add more to this thought. I invite you to do, as the time is nigh. Killing Rosebushes” by St George Frederick…