There is an old maxim that says that a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client.  Sometimes it’s even worse when you get a lawyer, The attorney who represented Jake Angeli, the QAnon Shaman, negotiated a plea-bargain on his behalf.   It was a terrible deal.  Angeli received a sentence of […]

I watched the Monday evening Tucker Carlson show with great interest. Tucker and his team of technicians had been given access to the January 6 tapes of the so-called insurrection.  Out of these hours of video footage, Tucker chose a few snippets in order to make the following points: Several hundred of those who stormed […]

The following comment was in response to my most recent post. I repost it here, without attribution, because I believe the writer is absolutely correct. Everyone should take notice. “It is difficult to lay the blame on one group, but the journalism profession I think is a good place to start. It has failed its […]

I have posted almost nothing since the beginning of this year.  After all, what more can I say? The Democrats are in control of the executive branch of government and the Senate.  With few exceptions, I consider them a coterie of misguided incompetents.  Unfortunately, they are in position to do a great deal of harm. […]

In my most recent post I made a few remarks about the Supreme Courts Roe v Wade reversal and its probable effect on the 2022 midterm elections.  My opinion stirred up several responses, both positive and negative.  Because of that, I decided to examine the controversial issue in much greater detail. Abortions, legal or otherwise, […]

As you know, there have been very few new blog entries in the last month. The reason is that I have been curled up in my cage licking my wounds. The results of the recent Congressional election were a terrible disappointment to me. Why couldn’t the electorate see the truth? Encouraged by the outcome, the […]

On January 7 in Memphis, Tennessee, a number of police officers were videotaped beating a young black man to death.  It was a horrible scene, and it reminded many of us of the Rodney King and George Floyd incidents.  Though not privy to all the details, I can think of no valid excuse for police […]

An intense tropical cyclone has different labels depending upon where it occurs. In the Atlantic and in the northeast and north-central Pacific it it is called a hurricane. In the northwest Pacific it is called a typhoon. Elsewhere it is usually referred to as a tropical cyclone. Other than the name, there are no differences. […]