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Monthly Archives: July 2019

Liberals and self-defense: Are things changing?

Thursday, July 25, 2019

To qualify for a concealed carry permit in my state, one must get 21 of 30 shots inside the “7” line. That’s not difficult, frankly. The green lines show how my 30 shots were clustered during my shooting trial. Only two of my shots were in the “9” area, and the others were much closer […]

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Catastrophic media failure

Thursday, July 25, 2019

It is rare to be an observer at an important event and then to see how the media report on it. I watched the Mueller hearings yesterday, as well as the Democrats’ press conference afterwards. What I saw was not what the media are reporting — at all. What I saw was a dignified and […]

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Clues to the future in how people talk

Sunday, July 21, 2019

This video has been dubbed so that Trump is speaking with a British accent. His words are the same. How many fans would Trump have if he actually talked like this? We Americans believe that the British are excessively judgmental about how people talk (and they are). But not only are we Americans just as […]

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Fried oysters, and a wandering mind

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Fried oysters, French fries, and hushpuppies. The hushpuppies are barely visible, underneath the oysters. If you can’t find any good escape fiction, then how about some escape food instead? Fried oysters should do the trick. I had to make a miserable trip out yesterday afternoon in 95-degree heat. I could have just gone to a […]

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Please, somebody … just get us out of here

Monday, July 15, 2019

Jason Momoa in Apple’s “See” The diagnosis, I feel sure, is chiefly Game of Thrones withdrawal. Whether you loved it or were disappointed, Game of Thrones ended, leaving us exposed and defenseless in the here and now. Europe has been in an oven. The American heartland keeps flooding. Many farmers have been ruined. The water […]

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The history you know without knowing you know it

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams. Oxford University Press, 2006. 732 pages. I have a standard riddle that I thought of years ago. I don’t think anyone has ever gotten the answer: Name something that you use every day and that you couldn’t get by without. It […]

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