One of the most entertaining books I’ve ever read is Bill Bryon’s "A Short History of Nearly Everything", in it, the author touches on topics such as…well, nearly everything. Bryson is a meticulous researcher, an outstanding teacher, and the book is wall-to-wall fun....
Recent Commentaries
Thank you John McCain
The two issues I find most disturbing about the politics of this country are the state of our southern border and climate change. So today and tomorrow I’m going to address each. Beginning with the border, I simply do not understand why a government, any government...
A Study in Contrasts
Well, it's the day after Christmas and I hope everyone had an enjoyable day with family or friends - We had Xmas dinner with friends, played some games and had a delightful day. But Bobbi and I like to spend Christmas Eve alone, just us, and to tell the truth, we...
It’s not that complicated
There was a time when I would defer to the dictionary to settle linguistic arguments; but no longer. The Cambridge Dictionary, like it’s cousin, Merriam-Websters, recently altered the definitions of the words man and woman to include people who identify as a gender...
Marco Polo
Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, and adventurer traveled from Europe to Asia between 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years, and whose Il Milione (“The Million”) known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo (considered a classic in travel literature)...
Legerdemain & the Left
Professional magicians have long known that distracting an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. But magicians aren’t the only ones where legerdemain is critical to fooling people—left wing politicians are also masters of distraction. A magician must...
Thoughts, Observations & What Not
Why is it that you’ll never see a barfight between two guys drinking Chardonnay? What people want most from government is to live their lives with a degree of comfort, a feeling of security, and the belief they can trust the government to function in a reasonable...
Truly Frightening
Many Americans like me fear we are losing the country we grew up in and had hoped or perhaps even assumed that we would pass on to our children, who would in turn pass it on to their children and grandchildren. And there is no better illustration of just how we’re...
You knew it was coming
Delegates from nearly 200 Paris Climate Accord signatories kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to “global warming.” According to the U.N. press release the agreement...
A few thoughts on tomorrow
Has anyone noticed that during the recent campaigning whenever democrat candidates talked about their accomplishments, they always referred to the legislation they’ve passed by their high sounding but misleading names, i.e., the Inflation Reduction Act that doesn't...