Atlanta, GA November 9, 2022 For several years, our long-time housekeeper has been embezzling money, breaking our things, siphoning our gas, and sharing pornography with our impressionable kids. One day, this uppity servant stole our keys and locked us inside. She’d let us out periodically, but only to go to specific places for certain things. […]
Atlanta, GA November 4, 2022 Imagine going to the doctor with unfamiliar chest pains. The physician hears your symptoms, drops everything, and immediately suggests open-heart surgery. Just to be safe. You question the decision, and ask for some tests, additional data, or perhaps another opinion. You also try to inform him of other health issues […]
As we did a couple days ago, we delve the archives, and recall a wonderful place in a pleasant time. [Earlier installments in this series: Orléans, Chenonceau, Amboise, Chambord, Montrichard, Blois, Tours, Chartres, Paris] Paris, France April 26, 2000 After the Religious Wars, the Bourbons supplanted the Valois, and moved regal soirées from the Loire […]
Atlanta, GA October 26, 2022 Degenerate societies despise children. The Canaanites immolated them, Carthaginians took them to the tophets, and Aztecs hurled them into volcanic pits. Being more “civilized” than its ancient ancestors, modern culture dispenses with kids by averting its eyes. Every year in America alone, almost a million unseen innocents are intentionally exterminated […]
Atlanta, GA October 15, 2022 “There must be something about Russia; like a chorus girl on the make for a rich, old man, she seems to attract degenerate empires.” – Bill Bonner We’re teetering on the cusp of the Fourth Turning. And the incorrigible idiots who’ve put us on the precipice seem bound and determined […]
Atlanta, GA October 5, 2022 A couple years ago, we stirred the pot by assessing every occupant of the Oval Office (or whatever office preceded it). We sampled the executive stew, appreciated the few palatable portions, and spit out the most rancid elements. Now, only eighteen months later, we must revise the recipe. The best […]
Auburn, AL September 25, 2022 “SWEET AUBURN! Loveliest village of the plain.” – Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village This is Homecoming and “Parents Weekend” at Auburn. We aren’t alums. But we do have a son who hopes to be one in about a year. So with his younger brother, Rita and I came to campus. […]
Auburn, AL September 15, 2022 Mark Twain said that while history doesn’t repeat, it often rhymes. Today the stanza and meter brought back memories. My younger son is a senior in high school. He’s taken his tests, compiled his grades, and is applying to college. Our elder son went thru the same process three years […]
Atlanta, GA September 9, 2022 I’ve had opportunities to encounter a lot of people. We lost one of them last week with the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. Another departed yesterday, when Queen Elizabeth II gave up the ghost. I crossed paths with Gorbachev in 1995, while I was working as a civil engineer for the […]
Atlanta, GA September 5, 2022 I started to write this Thursday night, on the heels of a speech I couldn’t believe I’d just heard. But because that address was so ominous and outrageous, I decided to put down my pen, and take time to reflect. Having done so, I’ve decided that the conclusion to be […]