FEATURED COLUMN: NOTES TO SELF
Machines of Loving Grace
For reasons I’ll likely never understand, I remain an inscrutable combination of idealism, cynicism, skepticism, and naïveté. I’m never sure when any of those...
Movin’ On
One of my favorite Bad Company songs is “Movin’ On”. (I still think the late Boz Burrell is a tremendously underrated bass player.) But...
Trapped Like a Rat
Uncle Vlad is starting to feel the heat from NATO, particularly the fact that Finland and Sweden have applied for membership to shore up...
Filet of Solar
The British author, H.G. Wells, who passed away in August of 1946, is reputed to have said, “No passion in the world Is equal...
In For a Penny, In For a Pound
I’ve elevated ignoring The New York Times to the level of policy for the same reason I ignore all sources of ideological propaganda. But...
Mr. Mayorkas Goes to Washington
If you happened to have the terrifyingly enlightening misfortune, as did I, to watch any of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s testimony before Congress...
Gored by Al
Last week, Vice ran an article entitled, “Remains of Ancient Giant Sea Creatures Found In Swiss Alps”. You had to know it would find...
It’s For the Birds
Wow! Who could have seen this coming? A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and...
Relentless Noise
You can tell who the people are who have nothing to say. They’re the ones who never shut up. They’re constantly making as much...
Last Call
I’m afraid I might be sending mixed signals. Here’s why:
I keep receiving invitations to join all kinds of groups and programs intended to help...
