The obsessive media frenzy regarding the recycling of the Washington Post “journalist”, Jamal Khashoggi – who happened to be a Saudi national and not to be a U.S. citizen (he was a U.S. “resident”) is really something amazingly educational to observe. It illustrates some important characteristics of our friends on the progressive left.…
I’ve been a Steely Dan devotee since I first listened to the album “Can’t Buy A Thrill” back in the summer of 1973 – the last summer before I entered high school. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen wrote and performed songs that were truly an intellectual step above the emotions of the times and that…
Over the past couple of weeks, few random thoughts and observations have been ricocheting around in my quite spacious empty skull like a marble in an empty paint can. If America is not to be allowed to judge the cultures of others, then other cultures are not to be allowed to judge America. If you…
“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government, but the maintenance of order is already…
My wife and I went out for a 6 mile hike in the snow with our dogs today and a conversation about how much technological change we have witnessed in our lifetimes was triggered when she asked me this question: Do we still have a DVD player? We remarked about our journey from…
Nearly 30 years ago, a good friend of mine gave me an expressionist print, the somewhat lengthy title of it is: “The irony is this – if you don’t go in…you can’t find out.” I love that print. It is in my office where I see it every day. I sometimes find…
This linked article from the Federalist got me thinking this morning…well, that and a cup of bullet-proof coffee. Pretty much every leftist attack on the right can be understood when viewed from the perspective of outcome versus opportunity…and that is why, when reduced to the least common denominator, the bias of the left is…
