Back in Office after Break
As of January 5, 2026, I am back in office after four weeks of recovery from yet another abdominal surgery. The latest surgery was to correct damage to my abdominal wall stemming from the sepsis incident back in 2022. I have two fresh 6-inch incision scars to add to my growing collection. For the moment I tire easily, my range […]
Continue reading→We Don’t Have to Live Like This
Following the recent shooting on the Brown University campus, in which two students were killed and nine injured, police released clips of surveillance footage showing the suspected gunman. This footage shows a short stocky person, most likely a man, of medium complexion, dressed all in black and wearing a surgical mask and beanie hat, presumably to mask his identity. Not […]
Continue reading→The Green Energy Obsession is Over
And it’s About Time For all his many flaws, Donald Trump has served a larger good by shifting the Overton Window. Topics that were once sacred cows, about which no contrary opinions were permitted—DEI, all things trans, climate change, net zero, to name a few—are once again up for discussion. They are not faring well under renewed scrutiny. This is […]
Continue reading→The New Normal
Was in the home stretch of my daily two-block walk from the house to the shop a couple of mornings ago, placing one foot in front of the other in the customary way, thinking about nothing in particular, when my reverie was suddenly interrupted by a large navel orange going splat on the driveway a couple of steps ahead. At […]
Continue reading→That was a Stretch
Or: How a Gift Turned into a Creative Exercise. My girlfriend of many years is having a birthday soon. This not your typical birth anniversary, though; she is turning 65. This is an event of some significance. With it’s passage, you can no longer pretend to be middle aged, much less young. It is the widely recognized if unofficial start […]
Continue reading→Transitions
Like most of my canine companions, the midsize hound mix with the sad brown eyes came to me by a roundabout route, having passed through other owners and situations before landing on my doorstep. Her most recent human was a woman who had worked for me for a while before moving on. Winona, not her real name, had found the […]
Continue reading→The Permanent Crisis
I am what the Left calls a climate “denier,” meaning that I refuse to believe with all my heart that a slight warming trend means Armageddon is nigh. There are lots of reasons for holding this viewpoint, and if you have a few hours to kill I’d be happy to give you the Cliff Notes version. I am also a […]
Continue reading→Reality Check
Somehow or other I ended up subscribing to a fellow named David Roberts, a green-energy enthusiast, on Substack. I do not recall doing this, but perhaps in a moment of inattention I clicked a button. He seems like a nice enough chap, but he suffers from the tunnel vision to which so many green-energy advocates are prone. David’s latest effort, […]
Continue reading→A Day to Remember
Today, April 9th, marks the 160th anniversary of the surrender of Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee to the Union Army, commanded by Ulysses Grant, in Appomattox, Virginia, ending the American Civil War. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, the South’s collapse came gradually, and then all at once. By 1864, after three grinding years of back-and-forth, often inconclusive struggle, Northern leadership […]
Continue reading→Happy Anniversary!
Just Kidding Today is the third anniversary of my cancer-excision surgery. The tumor, revealed by a routine colonoscopy in February, was early stage one, small and well-contained, and “moderately well-differentiated,” which placed it one small step above the lowest rank of concern. It’s location, in the lower GI tract, was textbook. It was a routine, low-risk case that should have […]
Continue reading→There’s Just no “There,” There
Or: Why I could not Support a Kamala Harris Presidency With the recent revelation of large-scale hacks of the US telecom system by Chinese state operatives, the long-running, undeclared cold war between the United States and the People’s Republic of China has just heated up. Way up. The full extent of the penetration is not yet known, but insiders have […]
Continue reading→Down but not Out
Yesterday marked four months since my most recent surgery, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. No, not going to say “four-month anniversary,” a major pet peeve, because the “anni” in “anniversary” is Latin for “year.” I regard the misuse of this term as one of the many symptoms of our ongoing decline, if not an actual cause. So far […]
Continue reading→Gone but not Forgotten
He was healthy, handsome, and would have made someone a good companion. But because he was somewhat older, nobody seemed to want the midsize chihuahua mix with the big brown eyes. So he was passed over, again and again, by folks who mostly wanted younger, sportier models. This was not his first rodeo. Twice before he had been surrendered by […]
Continue reading→Global Boiling is Officially Cancelled
You may have noticed that a lot of folks seem to be in a panic about Climate Change. This concern rests on the assumption that increased atmospheric CO2, presumably from human activity, will cause increased heat retention in the atmosphere, leading to potentially dangerous over-heating of the planet. The principle is pretty straightforward. Incoming radiant energy from the sun, consisting […]
Continue reading→Truth Hurts
The story made quite a splash when it dropped a week ago. A fellow named Uri Berliner wrote a piece for the Free Press, an online outlet, critical of his employer, National Public Radio, for having essentially become a Left-wing mouthpiece. Now a week might as well be a decade in the current age 0f 24/7, high-volume, light-speed, bleeds-leads, news […]
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