The end of the year 2023 is days away, and not long after 2024 begins, the American Nation and all the people of which she is comprised will begin anew the process of tearing itself into little pieces along ideological…
Category: How Things Work
Battle of Athens (1946) Our only successful uprising since 1776
(I want to dedicate this film review to Lady Penguin and JadedByPolitics, old friends from the Obama days, and my early days of RedState.com. We didn’t use the term “influencer” in 2006, but it was clear there was an urge…
“It is French”
First Part “Schtick”— from the Yiddish: A comic theme or gimmick, first introduced on stage by Mark Twain The story goes that Mark Twain had invested heavily into the publishing of Ulysses S Grant’s autobiography, but which had been victimized…
Russia-Bad vs Ukraine-Bad, and the “I Can Train Monkeys to Make Underwear” thesis of Post-Modern Business
Part 2 As I related in Part 1, I came to Kentucky by accident in 1979, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian lawyer. Only Jimmy Carter, who…
Essential American Dumb-Quackery
Natural law versus natural choices gone wrong Part I: When facts hurt. On August 23, 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin police shot and wounded Jacob Blake while attempting to arrest him. A riot ensued staged by Black Lives Matter. Two days later,…