Month: November 2016
Footage of Corktown. Notice the huge swaths of darkness. You can’t see anything . . . because there isn’t anything to see. It’s just vacant blackness.
Miscellaneous Rambling: Detroit An old philosophical problem: If you’re sitting in an otherwise pitch black room with a single candle burning it, are you noticing the candle or the …
Miscellaneous Rambling: Football About once a year, I see one of my teams get so spiflicated by bad referring that I doubt the integrity of the game. Normally, it …
Welcome to Advent. I enter mine worn out and weary. I’m hoping to rebound. If you need a boost, too, maybe these will help. From GKC’s The Everlasting Man: …
I’m glad Marie has a good sense of humor. She got her London pictures back earlier this week. She was whipping through them, handing them to the kids and …
Random Welcome to Black Friday. If you’re reading this, you realize you have better things to do today than to rip our your soul in order to save $250 …
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and …
Black Wednesday I’ll confess a conceit: I think I became aware of Black Wednesday before anyone else. When I first started talking about it in the late 1980s, it …
The major op-ed in Monday’s Post, by editorial editor Fred Hiatt, was titled, “The Fight to Defend Democracy,” implying American democracy is imperiled by a Trump presidency. The Post’s …
More Miscellaneous Rambling Special BYCU, Black Wednesday, edition coming tomorrow. As of this writing, I don’t know what I’ll drink about, but I’m sure something will come to me. …
Miscellaneous Rambling I don’t like dogs. Well, I thought I didn’t like dogs. After my trip to London, it appears I don’t like American dogs. I don’t like American …
If the media had bothered to publicize the fact that Rodney King had two partners with him who didn’t get beaten by police that fateful night because they obeyed …