Why Don’t We Know? Why Didn’t We Know? The National Whine.
Do you think our grandparents were standing around the radio, or the window outside the newspaper office where they hung the daily headlines for...
Expert at Mob Looting, Can Democrats Now Prove Themselves as Penthouse Jewel Thieves
THIS AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE or EVEN COVID MATH
It comes down to this:
As of 7 AM the morning after the election, Seven states remain in...
Politicians Can’t be Heroes
I'll get to Donald Trump eventually, since there's an election on.
But the question is, first, Do nations need Heroes?
Thomas Carlyle, the 19th Century English...
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...
Raising California
Or Raising Manhattan. Try Nob Hill. Pick a city, any city. In fact, pick a county seat. They all started with the wealthiest homes,...