Thursday, July 18, 2024

Island Days

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  It’s that time again as we find ourselves in the dog days of summer.  After two long weeks of 90+ humid days here in the Washington, DC ar...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

How Ironic – The MAGA-GOP in the Cradle of American Socialism

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Although my hometown is Chicago where the Democratic National Convention will take place in late August (just as it did in the fateful summe...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Begging for Money Will Not Resolve This Election

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 I am sure many of you are probably receiving the same e-mails and text messages I have been receiving in recent months.  Democratic candida...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Program 2025 -- An American Mein Kampf

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I have been systematically reading through the Heritage Foundation’s almost 900-page blueprint for a future “conservative” [sic] MAGA-GOP ad...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Who's a Good Boy? - Remembering An Old Friend

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Where is my treat, Steve? “It seems that nature has given dog to man for his defense and his pleasure,” Voltaire wrote in his Dictionnaire p...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Happy July 4th? - Are You Feeling Particularly Patriotic These Days?

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For several years I joined members of a local historical society, townspeople, and visitors each July 4th for a public reading of the Declar...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Why Won't the Other Guy Step Down?

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Like so many in this country, I watched the first presidential debate of this current election cycle on June 27.  I did not really want to w...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Remembering the Owl in the Mask of a Dreamer: John Haines at 100

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Today would have been John Haines' 100th birthday.  John, who passed away in Alaska in March 2011, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, the s...
Monday, June 24, 2024

The Man of the Hour Redux – My Dad Would Have Turned 100 Today!

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Sadly, Dad passed away in October 2009 at the age of 85 after a few years of declining health.  Yet It seems to me only proper to reflect on...
Friday, June 21, 2024

April Was a Very Cruel Month . . . But With a Happy Ending

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April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept ...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Happy New Year 2024!

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Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous New Year.  This past year has been a difficult one for many reasons although I am ha...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Merry Christmas

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Wishing all of my friends and followers a very festive holiday season.  May you seek peace and tranquility among your family and friends.  เคจ...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Looking Toward Portugal — It’s Been 15 Years!!

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  On this day in 2008 I launched a new blog and since then I have posted over 600 times.  This has been a dry year due to an unexpected illn...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Without Facts and Evidence History Becomes Indistinguishable from Fiction

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  A week ago, I posted a historical fact about Mussolini on Facebook along with a well-known photograph of the man. Now I have been informe...