August 14, 2023

The COVID mask holdouts

My son came back from shopping today a little stunned, as though he had seen a ghost.  He was shocked to see a person in the grocery store still wearing a COVID mask.  He immediately leapt to an analogy that has kept me laughing a...

June 14, 2023

A tale of two jaywalkers

On an old suburban highway, the police notice a rise in pedestrian fatalities.  The problem is obvious.  The signal lights with crosswalks are sometimes up to half a mile apart, and people have neither the time, patience, nor ener...

May 17, 2023

Do not allow Art Garfunkel to be written out of history

There was a magical time for modern music, loosely between 1955 and the end of the 20th century, yet a very small percentage of it will survive the test of time. I don’t expect The Turtles or Herman’s Hermits (who I’m seein...

May 19, 2020

A better name for the COVID-19 masks

It was the first truly warm sunny spring day in the Northern Virginia area, so I was thrilled to fire up the Triumph Bonneville for the 25-minute ride to work.  There weren't many people out at 6:30 A.M., and I needed to focus on my rid...

April 5, 2020

Did Anyone Think This Through?

Count me as one of a diminishing number of "coronavirus response" skeptics.  My vantage point is that of a working-class person (service manager in an auto repair shop).  My state of Virginia has joined the growing number of state...

December 11, 2019

Breitbart endorses the 'Palestine' fiction?

I expect nothing in the way of accuracy or honesty from mainstream journalism, but I have come to expect better from Breitbart.  So I was surprised last week when I found an article by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., entitled "Pope Francis ...

February 19, 2012

Mitt Romney's Cross of Gold?

Capitalism itself is under attack by the Left once again, and will be an issue in the presidential election. Before conservatives commit to a full throated defense, they should consider a few political realities. When William Jennings Bryan made his ...