This is getting ludicrous. First, I was busted by Facebook for posting a National Geographic picture of some Papua New Guinea guys wearing penis gourds, as they do there. Nothing obscene, just guys in their native dress. NatGeo. Off limits. No jail time, just a warning. Then I got 24 hours in Facebook Jail for…
So let me get this straight. The Dixie Chicks had to change their names because “Dixie” has a historical association with slavery. Confederate flags are banned because of a historical association with slavery. A fraternity can’t have an “antebellum” party because of a historical association with slavery. Statues of Robert E. Lee are being toppled…
Once again, I had to take my Ram pickup truck to the dealer. This time, it was just to make sure it was OK before the warranty ran out. And once again, I bought a pack of smokes and went out to talk to the homeless. The first people I ran into were Mack and…
I see that 10% Joe has issued an Executive Order that any high-school boy who can put on a dress and sing a verse of “Man, I Feel Like A Woman” is legally entitled to take showers with high-school girls, because feelings. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that? I mean, no teenaged boy,…
After I wrote my most recent piece about wandering around in the world of the homeless, called “Fixing The EGR“, some folks accused me of being compassionate. Funny, but I don’t see it that way at all, for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that we grew up without much money. My “new”…
My faithful Ram 1500 had a recall notice for the Exhaust Gas Recirculating system. They said it would take about four hours, so I figured I’d wander the streets of Santa Rosa. In a previous post called “Fixing The Brakes” I spoke about how I think it’s wrong to ignore the homeless. I don’t mean…
In this New Year, to counterbalance these most fractious times I thought I’d tell a tale of humanity and caring. I’ve had the privilege of living in a wide variety of countries and societies. And having not always been entirely sane myself, one way that I judge societies is by how they handle their crazy folks.…
Horrible news for our kids. Biden wants to get rid of a part of tax law called “stepped-up basis”. Not a rumor. Politifact rates it as “True”. Here’s a real-world example of what this means. Say you paid $50,000 for your home some years ago. When you eventually fall off the perch, your daughter inherits…
Declaration of My Conflict of Interest Regarding The Man Just Beheaded For Discussing Cartoons of Mohammed: I do have “a dog in this fight”, a personal stake in this struggle. During the Islamic Cartoon Wars of 2006, a number of orthodox Muslim leaders published “fatwa” death sentences on the heads of the twelve Danish cartoonists…
Let’s talk real. Joe is not the presidential candidate. Kamala is. Everyone knows that Joe will step aside in the first couple of years “to spend more time with his family”. More than 60% of registered Democrats say if he wins, he won’t last until the following election. With that as prologue, a lovely liberal…
People have been pushing the claim below, that BurnLootMurder and the Auntie Fascists (the fascists who are ludicrously calling themselves “Antifa”) are mostly holding peaceful demonstrations, NOT riots. They say the demonstrations are “93% peaceful” … However, it wasn’t clear to me what “peaceful” meant and thus what the numbers meant, hence this post. And…
The Democrat Party Platform is online here. I thought I’d take a look at it using computer textual analysis. To get an overview of the whole document, I made a “word cloud” of the party platform, where word size indicates how often that word appears in the platform. (Common words like “is”, “are”, “go”, and…
In an article that approaches peak 2020, some avis-inbecilli ornithologists say we have to change the common names that birds have had for centuries because, you guessed it, the names are RACIST!!! And not only that but the poor bird names “represent colonialism, racism and inequality”. Scary stuff! Source Article However, it turns out that this…
I see that the usual media suspects are whipping up indignation about Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills. It’s bizarre. Hillary, President Obama, and Biden all went to Mt. Rushmore, and the media fawned over them. But now that President Trump has had the audacity to go there, the media is all full of righteous…
On this lovely Juneteenth day, I’d like to celebrate how far-sighted and prescient Mr. Booker T. Washington was. Over a hundred years ago, in his 1911 book My Larger Education, he perfectly described the situation today with Black Lives Matter and other related movements: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business…
