January 8, 2025

Biden’s parting shot

In the waning days of the Biden administration, it seems that they have decided to either indulge their most liberal whims and/or salt the political landscape for the current Democrat establishment. Starting with the pardon of his son Hunter's...

April 1, 2024

Ronna McDaniel and the Peacock Network

Is there any rational person who still believes that the National Broadcasting Company is in any way a reliable source of news? The network of Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Harry Reasoner, Roger Mudd, and Tom Brokaw has now abandoned all pretense ...

March 24, 2024

Another bad idea: Touchscreens in cars

One of the happy cycles in my life occurs every three to four years when I drive home in a new vehicle.  However, for me, the current car market is a challenge. I currently own a great vehicle.  It is a 2018 Audi allroad, a small but ...

April 8, 2022

Is it Time for an Electric Car?

I’ve been a car enthusiast for a long time. In my early teens, I would take a bus from my town in the mountains, down to the city. I walked to the avenue where most of the car dealers were. To their chagrin, I would end up with a large collecti...

December 17, 2021

Who isn't getting infected?

It has been nearly two years since the first inklings of a respiratory infection in China that would turn the world upside-down.  In a rational society, this would be the point where we realized that our attempts to vaccinate against this i...

February 1, 2019

The crimes of Cuomo, the calumny of the Church

Like so many others, I am a lapsed Catholic.  For me, it happened in stages.  It started with the banality of the post-Vatican II liturgy and the insipid messages from the modern pulpit designed mainly not to offend. Later came the priestly...