I’m not a political scientist but as an honorary old man I have the benefit of a long memory, something that some political scientists can’t claim simply because they haven’t walked on this Earth that long. And with that long memory comes the ability to see BS, what was, and what might come to be. […]

It’s a well understood principle of physics that it takes a long time to turn a ship around and it takes a long time to bring a fully loaded train to a stop. That same idea could be applied to social phenomena. There are multiple mass movements, threads of related behaviors and choices that’re quickly […]

I am a poor consumer of movies and entertainment media in general. I had a period of time where I watched a moderate number of movies, but I find it harder to become enthused now. Nevertheless, going through best-of lists every now and then, I’m always surprised by how many I’ve seen. One that I’ve […]

A recent history (about three weeks) of Covid headlines goes something like this: OMG, there’s a new variant of Covid to be afraid of. Be ye afraid, very afraid of Omicron, but we don’t know anything about it. Test show that the Moderna vaccine offers significantly better protection than the Pfizer. Omicron is here and […]

As the Biden presidency has progressed, his poll numbers have trended steadily downward. This is not news to anyone; it’s widely publicized in the press and intuitively known by a wide swath of observers. The reasons for his downward spiral in polling are also obvious. Biden has mishandled all his own supposed initiatives through incompetence […]

In the course of discussing multiple threads of events pertinent to our lives, my wife and I concluded that we should collect some crucial books for a future gift. The details of that discussion seemed to resonate with me on two levels: first the memory of significant meaning that I derived from specific books, especially […]