“Long Black Veil” was written in 1959 by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin. I first heard it on a Kingston Trio LP around 1963. We had a folk group in those days, and in our neck of the woods, deep…
Category: American Exceptionalism
The Left Must be Stopped
(The following is a post from Haystack, author of the Post-Covid Decalogues, Pts I-III, appearing over the past several days. About the larger Game at hand, beyond police-state tactics around the country, it goes to the very heart of real…
It Takes Two to Tango
Just the other day, I’m going down Aisle 5 at A & P to get a jar of pickled pigs feet on the bottom shelf, like I always do every other Thursday. A lady was down that aisle with…
Savo Sound, 1942, and Our Place on the Current Learning Curve
When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Social Distancing, “If I was any Closer to You, I’d be Behind You” (Updated)
(I updated this on 4/03 after I found some notes on corporate production tatistical modeling from a Fortune 500 company in the 1980s. Instructive, perhaps at least for government agency decision makers.) In Virginia it’s not even been two weeks…