March 5, 2025

Still One Third

First, Trump presented a superbly composed summary of his record (at least five things he did last week.) He also presented the same dedicated pacifist authority, bent on righting a Progressively corrupt...

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March 4, 2025

Post-Reason

Innuendo, talking points, rabbit trails, and so-called “critical thinking” combine to make “higher criticism.” Not that critical thinking is the problem. Critical thinking is very, very solid stuff. It only loses its...

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March 4, 2025

Zelensky’s War

Putin attacked, Zelensky defended. Biden opened America’s purse. A million dead people, casualties of war. Some were soldiers. Zelensky sees years of fighting ahead. Trump closed the purse. Two world leaders killing...

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March 2, 2025

Big Words

The deeper we get into the swamp, the slipperier the slimy corruption becomes. A few more weeks of successful rock tipping should begin to expose the realities. With few doubts, mcconnell multipedes,...

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February 18, 2025

Intelligence Conversation

While this not especially good writing from either of us, this conversation represents “truth” as seen from an Artificially Intelligent point of view. (Maybe mine.) There is a sense of hilarity that...

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February 13, 2025

Time and Now Different Time

Einstein changed things in 1915, the era when my parents were born. (The Dark Ages: primitive man, slide rules, and Model Ts.) Most importantly, he allowed a way to convert light to...

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August 21, 2023

Sorrow

When we lose someone, grief can hang like an old bottle of medicine. But something is now there, that wasn’t there before.

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August 18, 2023

Leather and Steel

This is a failure point in my writing history. To date, more than 50,000,000 words remain incomplete and unpublished since my last Hearthside Reflection at Freedom House. Five books written: one published,...

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July 10, 2023

Most Important Things

Most important things have a place of their own, or a place on a list of Top 10s. So this is it. Thank you for acknowledging today’s most important things. I hope...

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July 8, 2023

Self-help “Cures”

How do you solve your most serious personal problems? Here is news: your problems are inside of you, not outside, and they lie to you. They have only one goal: to grow...

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