2026

Republic

Our country is a republic. America is a nation filled out by states with the federal government having jurisdiction over the fifty states that make up the territories of this nation. The...

January 10, 2026

Venezuela

So, Maduro is gone from power. I guess that’s a good thing? I really don’t know so I take people’s word for that being a good thing. We were getting toward the...

January 6, 2026

Oddity

It has come to my attention that my old political party is totally out to lunch now. By out to lunch means, for their new dogma, that they are eating Chinese food,...

January 5, 2026

Circumstance

Are we here due to circumstance, luck, roll of the dice, or because we are meant to be here? One might suppose that our presence isn’t luck so much as biological circumstance....

January 4, 2026

Bologna Mamdani

Well, glory-be, New York has a newly elected mayor. Bologna Mamdani. Who da thunk, sixty years ago when the nation was well aware of communism, collectivism, and torture and murder of mind...

January 2, 2026

2025

Needs to Be Said?

Guess what, I woke up early this morning and Christmas was over! Then I realized, I still have to go through the change of numbers and I thanked goodness that computers do...

December 26, 2025

Forward to the Past

Biologically speaking and, if you will pardon the dismissal and throwing out of, “evolution,” we are now the same species we have always been. The skyscraper may be the only difference between...

December 22, 2025

First Hand

After some careful reflection for a few weeks I decided to go ahead and write of an experience I had coming home, going back to college, and winding down from Vietnam. Vietnam...

December 20, 2025

Large Lumps

This afternoon I got to thinking, which doesn’t bode well for innocent people, that cats are what should be placed in Congress rather than people. Put another way, we just got a...

December 20, 2025