Boise, ID February 19, 2022 Almost 45 years ago, my uncle took my mother, brother, and me to the first college basketball game I’d ever seen. I’m sitting now at the most recent one I’ve attended. And the same team played in both. “You mean”, my son asked, “that…of all teams…you’ve seen two Utah State games…one […]
Atlanta, GA February 16, 2022 Like a magnate who’s never happy if another mogul has more, LeBron James always looks as if he doesn’t get the respect he thinks he deserves. Perhaps it’s petulance. Maybe it’s pride. Or potentially it’s true. But I’ve always thought, regardless his accomplishments, that LeBron desperately wants his own “flu […]
Atlanta, GA February 10, 2022 Is it finally happening? Are these the weeks…like the first stones from the Berlin Wall…that the Covid Regime began to crumble? It started when Canadian truckers started chiseling the concrete. As cracks formed and the mortar gave way, other drivers hopped in their cabs, started their engines, and plowed through. […]
Atlanta, GA February 4, 2022 Time has no beginning and history has no bound And to this verdant country they came from all around They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forest tall Built the mines, the mills, and the factories for the good of us all. – Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” […]
Atlanta, GA January 29, 2022 With the leaves gone, we see less of the trees and more of the forest. And sometimes far beyond. The last couple weeks, I’ve had more time to look. Free from the tedium of Zoom meetings, customer negotiations, and powerpoint presentations, I’ve had a chance to come up for air…and […]
Atlanta, GA January 23, 2022 I think I understand how Christians felt when in 1303 the French king imprisoned a beleaguered pope, hand-picked an obsequious successor, and precipitated a seven-decade papal encampment in Avignon on the Rhône. A subsequent schism created rival “popes” based in Rome and Avignon, with a third claimant coming from Pisa […]
Atlanta, GA January 17, 2022 A couple days ago, I revealed how I failed a test for drugs…because I refused to consume one. Regarding the pharmaceutical elixirs themselves, I’ve given reasons for reluctance countless times during the last six months, and I need not re-hash all of them here. But I will provide a few more. It’s interesting that despite the dominant […]
Atlanta, GA January 16, 2022 We don’t get much “winter weather” in north Georgia. But when we do, it’s usually beautiful. Unlike northern snow, ours is brief, and charming…like a lovely marquise waving from a passing palanquin on the Champs-Élysées. It doesn’t linger like a corner hooker, or loiter like a drug dealer outside a […]
Atlanta, GA January 14, 2022 Yesterday we received a decision from nine people as to whether another person can tell hundreds of millions of different individuals what drugs they must take. While many of us had reasons to cheer or jeer the results, not enough found the scenario disturbing. How did Americans come to blithely […]
Atlanta, GA January 10, 2022 Chesterton observed that the modern world is insane. Not so much because it admits the abnormal, but because it cannot recover the normal. We’re now at a point where normality not only appears incapable of being recovered; most people don’t even seem to remember what it was. We think we’re […]