January 23, 2024

A New Business Plan to Save Electric Vehicles!

I can’t remember her name, but I remember what she said.  Speaking to a crowd who were trying to deal with the realization that big business and big government had conned them, she said, “COVID is not a pandemic.  It i...

December 3, 2022

Get rid of your TV

In my younger years, I had a dog named Kiki.  She was my best friend.  She was brave and loyal, and she raised my children, or at least, if she had been able to speak, she would have claimed to have raised them — and probabl...

November 4, 2022

Control Freaks and the Guilt Trip Travel Agency

Some years ago, I visited an aquarium in Monterey, California.  At first glance, it seemed like an interesting place, but sadly, I'm one of those people who read the entire sign explaining each exhibit. After reading a few signs, I r...

April 7, 2022

Is Ukraine Really Any More Corrupt than We Are?

Among the talking heads discussing Ukraine, more than a few have said things like "Ukraine is very corrupt.  We don't need to get into that fight" and "We don't have a dog in that fight.   The corruptio...

January 1, 2022

Conservatives must be ready to deal with Democrats cheating in the 2022 midterms

According to the polls, Biden's popularity is sinking faster than the Titanic.  This is causing great joy among the people who don't want to live under communism or even extreme totalitarian socialism.  Sadly, we won't w...

November 24, 2021

An old sailor sheds a tear on the prairie

You can't ever go home again.  Every sailor wants to go home, but home is a place in time and space, and so the thing he left is gone.  It has moved on and won't be the place it was when he left. Every sailor who has tr...

August 13, 2021

Leftist language losses linger

With a pretender napping in the Oval Office, the Chicoms practicing biological warfare on us, and the Democrat party trying to destroy our culture and nation, it would seem like a poor time to offer a minor lesson in grammar. Not so.  La...

November 13, 2020

We'd planned to live here our whole life. Thanks to Democrat policies, we're moving.

I came to Minneapolis in 1972,  lived in the western burbs until I married in 1991, and bought a house in a small but growing suburb northwest of town.  We have been very happy here.  We like the place and the people....

April 21, 2020

The panic and the epidemic

pan•demic (pan dem'ik) adj. Contraction of the words "panic" and "epidemic".  I realize that using the word that way changes its definition.  In the past, it was used to describe an epidemic th...

April 12, 2020

A taste of freedom in the coronavirus panic

My wife entered stage right (the hallway) and said in a frustrated voice, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"  This got my attention because my wife is an even-tempered woman who normally takes mode...

April 9, 2020

How long do you wait for something to not happen?

The son shows up at high tea wearing a dirty old wrinkled African bush hat.  His mother asks him, "Why are you wearing that awful hat?"  He says, "It keeps the elephants away."   "That's a...

March 2, 2020

How to Measure the Temperature of the Earth

As concerns man-made climate change: "The temperature of the Earth" is an ambiguous term that cannot mean anything.  At any given time it is possible to measure the temperature of some very small part of the Earth, such as, per...

February 5, 2020

Gun control? Don't sell your rights

The other day, I saw a T-shirt that read: Gun Control Breathe, relax, aim, sight, squeeze. Make no mistake: Big Mike (Mini Mike?) is coming for our guns.  He might just buy the White House or the Democratic Party and then start passi...

July 1, 2019

How about Democrats pay reparations to everyone who's not a Democrat?

Reparations are a fashionable political topic that has been employed extensively by the Democrats, feeding right into their identity politics and their intersectional victimhood scale of merit. Putting the feel-good stuff and the virtue-signaling ...