Hits
Bela Okmyx “They hit us, we hit them.” I’m not sure that’s an actual quote from “A Piece of the Action”, but it’s close. Somewhere…
Month: August 2020
Sunday Reading
It’s Time for the Samuel Adams Option Because what we’ve been doing for 30 years isn’t working.
Memetic Warfare, Part II
Another 24 hours and a new crop of memes are floating about the Intertubz. As one who follows such things might expect, these are somewhat..harsher.…
Memetic Warfare
People have found a hero, it seems. Or are creating one, perhaps. I will remind you that history has turned on less.
Catching up on some things
I’m one of the world’s worst for reading the folks on my blogroll. I blame the 24 hour day, which is a vestige of colonialism…
Fine Art Tuesday
Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry, 1940 John Steuart Curry was a Kansas born American painter of the Regionalist school, whose rather brief career, starting in…
Paying the price
I feel like I’m kicking someone when they’re down. However, they did it to themselves, and I feel that it is instructive to the rest…
Sunday Reading
I’m going to do something that feels weird to me, but I’m going to recommend a book that I haven’t finished reading. It’s that good…
Life in the time of Wuflu, Part 21: Observations
In the past two weeks, I’ve been out and about a lot, and I have seen things worth seeing. I have seen a lot of…
Not a Grand (Maunder) Minimum?
If you aren’t a subscriber of the SpaceWeather.com email newsletter, give it a shot. Many interesting and often beautiful things come through on it. Today’s…
Fine Art Tuesday
Alexander and Porus, Charles Le Brun, 1673 (This week’s Fine Art Tuesday’s work was inspired by this article from War History Online.) Charles Le…
Sunday Reading
I’ve been sharing the occasional thing I’ve read with The Email List That Must Not Be Named. When looking at opinion pieces, rather than news,…
Life in the People’s Republic of California
It pains me, although probably not as much as it pains the people in California, to document things like this. I’ve visited Northern California on…
A small victory
But a victory none the less. A 3 judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling that a California…
We now know who the Democrats really want as President
The mask is off, and we know who the Democrats really want for President: Kamala Harris. If you harbored any hope that you could sit…
Fine Art Tuesday
A Wet Day, on the Boulevard, Paris Alfred Stieglitz, 1894? At the suggestion of long-time friend of the blog Jed, we’re going to expand our…
Fighting the demon RFI
St. George had an easier task. Since I’ve finally gotten my HF radio setup in place, I’ve noticed that my home simply reeks of devices…
Want to see the damage from a tactical nuke?
(Via Bayou Renaissance Man) Well, it wasn’t really a nuke, and it would be a very small one, but enlightening all the same.
Fine Art Tuesday
In the Conservatory, Frances Maria Jones Bannerman, 1883 Frances Maria Jones Bannerman was a Canadian painter and poet. She was one of the first North…
The Old Folks
I don’t know if it’s a uniquely Southern thing, or maybe a rural thing, but there has always been the concept of “the Old Folks”…
Things are looking up
We don’t want to go there. Folks, you don’t want to be That Guy. Like most, I’ve been on a lot of video conferences lately,…