2026

Straight, As In Time

I am what some would call an, “expert,” in only two things. When I claim that title it comes with the caveat that both subjects of my expertise were a while ago....

January 23, 2026

Europe

-The “Old World”- I thought that I would say this out loud but it is a thing I’ve thought about since the 1950s. There was a time when Europe was the world’s...

January 21, 2026

Fractured Facts

If you’ve ever known a person who tells “sort-of” lies then you have an idea of what the Democrats have been doing since, oh, say 1920. It’s actually been a bit longer...

January 19, 2026

The Color Issue

Hey, hate me all you want but I will try to speak clearly in this article. The issue of color is naught more than a cudgel, a hand-carried weapon to inflict pain...

January 18, 2026

Have You Seen America Recently?

She seems to be diminished, doesn’t she, America. She appears to be a widow now as she bows low and retreats into herself. She is ill and that illness stems from her...

January 17, 2026

Precipice

Hey, guess what? The world is not perfect! I think I missed perfection by the length of a cornfield, you? I knew I wasn’t perfect when I found I could not make...

January 15, 2026

Quite Narrow

The title has to do with our paths through life. If, that is, one is interested in eternity. I once thought that living to and through eternity was science fiction but I...

January 14, 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

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

2025

New Year, New Screw-up’s

Don’t you just love the New Year, any new year. A year ago this year was a new year so how’d that go for you? One might think that any need for...

December 31, 2025