For the past six months my health has been steadily declining. I’m 78, have lost over 50 pounds, and now I am losing memory, especially my Trivia Pursuit memory, unable to remember Hollywood films, and popular songs. My mother died…
Category: 2024 election
Battle of Athens (1946) Our only successful uprising since 1776
(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…
A Letter from Cumberland Gap, Our Last Talk
I had expected a Quickening, but not before Christmas. This is from a Vietnam vet, Infantry platoon leader, college roommate one year, a fine prosecutor, then judge, and a good courthouse philosopher of Thomas Jefferson’s ilk: We will have to…
The Timeline of Freedom, How and Why
I want to tell this story as it was seen and heard the first time in a classroom filled with black mothers, and their babies in a nursery across the hall….in the 1990s. In 1996 I began teaching a…
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 1979, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian lawyer. Only Jimmy Carter, who…