What I’ll say here applies mostly to America’s Baby Boomers, born right after World War II, late 1945, all the way to 1964 (advertising demographers say). That would make the oldest of us 75 (I was born December, 1945) and…
Category: 2020 election
Daily Poke, Oct 10: A note on Our Side’s Second Guessers
You probably already know there are a few Keith Olbermann-types on the pro-Trump, Make America Great side of the ledger. But Yes, there is a difference; a big, big difference. You know Olbermann, he virtually disappeared in the national eye…
Daily Poke, 8 Oct: A Simple Quiz for Citizen-Voters
WHO AM I? The fact that he became President shows just how broke the political system was; The fact that he could even be considered for president shows how broken the Culture itself was; Who? Barack Obama? Bill Clinton, or…
The Daily Poke, Oct 7, 2020: The Covid Mask and Laziness
(OK, I missed a day.) By now everyone knows where the Covid-19 vulnerabilities lay; the aged and infirm, especially when both apply to the same person. Something like 80%+ of America’s deaths belong to that one group…that number even soaring…
The Daily Poke in the Eye: Notes on the Righteous “Screw You”
In the 1840s, in one of his lectures on “Heroes”, Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish philosopher, used the term “skeptical dilettantism” to describe how that army of ne’er-do-well, half-baked intellectuals will collectively move to destroy anyone of genius who enters their…