Old memories from a small Carolina village, circa 1936. In the months of May and June there was always a riot of color. Young girls would often stroll through the fields and pick wild flowers. They would weave these flowers into garlands, sometimes worn like a necklace or other times fashioned into a crown. […]
Trump has been accused of being a racist since he first began to campaign for president in 2015. Of course, some Democrats seem to believe that all Republicans are racists. When Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary, he referenced the Nazi/white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Trump’s response to it as the reason he […]
How many of you remember drug store soda fountains? The term soda fountain was originally used to mean a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks. The device combines flavored syrup or syrup concentrate and carbon dioxide with chilled and purified water to make soft drinks. Later the term was applied to small lunch counters where […]
1914 (Note: This post is only for those with an interest in military history. In it I describe cataclysmic events in the summer of 1914 when western civilization rushed into war, a war that tore Europe apart and left a terrible legacy that continues to exercise a malevolent influence on our world today. I wrote […]
I like to believe the best about people. When I see some winsome character on television telling me that this or that is true, I want to believe them. Then, a few minutes later, an equally winsome character on another channel tells me that the truth is exactly opposite from what I heard from the […]
Words are often inadequate to express deep emotions. How does one describe love? I only know that I was wrapped in a cocoon of deep affection from the time I arrived on earth. At the center of it all was my mother – that wonderful woman that I was privileged to call Mom. I […]
Free trade advocates have dominated economic thinking in Washington for decades. In August 2018 I posted an article in this blog questioning some of its assumptions. The Spring 2020 issue of National Affairs contains a defense of free trade written by Richard Reinsch, II, editor of Law & Liberty. His target is the industrial policy aimed at […]
I know not whether the practice continues today, but in times past young ladies would sometimes dream of love and express their hopes by slowly picking the petals of a flower and alternately saying, “He loves me.” “He loves me not.” Back in the age of dinosaurs when I was a teen, I remember […]
It is interesting to note how we see things so differently. Our world view has a profound effect upon how we interpret events, even to the point of describing an object black on some occasions and other times seeing it as white. The recent controversy over the sexual assault charges against Joe Biden is a […]
The bilge is the lowest part of a ship where the bottom curves up to meet the sides. The water that collects there is also called bilge. Bilge water becomes foul and dirty. Boats of any size have a bilge pump to remove accumulating bilge water. We might say the same thing about our government […]
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