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Category Archives: Commentary
A brief thought on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a particularly galling move. True, I knew it was coming, but even so…it’s just so frustrating watching Republicans kill everything that actually made this the country I grew up in, as they set … Continue reading
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A metaphor
In the “Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying” department, a snippet from Friends that seems to me sadly applicable. Joey’s refrigerator has given up the ghost, and his solution was…this. Happy birthday, America. I guess.
2025: The Fallen
Remembering this day those who lost their lives fighting in wars under the American flag. I make no attempt this day to adjudicate the justness of any of those wars; there are other days for that. (image credit) Every year … Continue reading
Two anniversaries
One somber, one celebratory. The first one happened three years ago today. The Wife and I were vacationing in the Finger Lakes region that weekend, and we got back to our cottage after a day visiting the Glass Museum in … Continue reading
Tabs! Get ’em while they’re open!
Time to clear out some tabbage: :: Two morons were convicted in Great Britain of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree. Good. :: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, 80 years old and battling cancer, has called it a career. Tilson Thomas … Continue reading
See, that was more of a one-time thing….
I’m not like many Americans when it comes to the “Founding Fathers”. I do not fall a dead-faint at their feet, the way many of my fellow Americans do. I find that sort of thing fairly performative, and I get … Continue reading
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Well-wishes
UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. Drum has died. If fact, he had already passed when I wrote this. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum is very ill. Back in the hey-day of blogging–oh, from roughly 2003 to 2009 or so, at which time Facebook … Continue reading
No answers….
Note: I have edited, and added to, this post several times since it went live. This is because my thoughts on this subject are a mess, and there’s a good chance they present as such in the material below. GRADY: … Continue reading
Letters to Congress, one
I’ve just drafted a letter that I will be printing out and mailing to my Representative tomorrow. I will be doing a lot more of this, and when I do, I will share the texts here. I have plans already … Continue reading
Truly a headline for our times
(This post is adapted from something I wrote on Facebook.) As much as I like to hope that the United States has not actually entered its period of long decline, it seems like not a week goes by–and sometimes it’s … Continue reading →