Götterdämmerung: – Noises Off
Being the first in a planned Twilight series of observations and ruminations on the state of the world and its denizens, past, present and future. Return On Investment: As ye sow, so shall ye reap....
View ArticleKenneth Aran: 1922-2015
In the long run, all that will remain of most of us will be whatever memories accrue among those we leave behind. When they are gone, so are we. Few will make the pages of the NYT, but some people...
View ArticleConsidering marijuana
If you follow my Facebook page, you will notice a number of links to articles discussing marijuana legalization. And if you haven’t yet figured it out, I am a proponent of legalization. That is not to...
View ArticleGötterdämmerung: Reboot
To the Thunder On The Right, from Trump to Cruz to your run-of-the-mill fundamentalist bigot, we can add the Cheering On The Left as BernieFans engage in their Mutual Admiration Society. With all...
View ArticleWe owe it all
…to six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains. I have PC software that makes any image into a puzzle, and I enjoy putting them together in idle moments. One photo I’m particularly fond of...
View ArticleCockleburs and Callings
Rummaging through Depression-era photos at Library of Congress, I came across some I’d seen before, taken by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration in the ’30-40s. Faro and Doris Claudill...
View ArticleLord Acton on Liberty in 2016
Lord Acton “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” The phrasing of ‘tends’ left Acton some wiggle room, just in case we happened to find...
View ArticleCharacter Matters
“A democracy cannot exist without an educated citizenry.” So says the mission statement on our masthead. And that has been on my mind a great deal lately. Exactly what constitutes sufficient...
View ArticleHigh Bridge
Originally published in Bluebook Magazine in April 1938. Cynthia Sophia Weed Steele 1870-1963 High Bridge You may think that the life of a ranchwoman must always be a humdrum existence. But as proof...
View ArticleAmerican Narrative
The bullshit American Narrative to the contrary, America is and has always been a ‘class society’. There are basically three classes: Rulers, Mandarins and Peasants. The Rulers care only about...
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