Friday, July 5, 2019

The Voices on the Radio: Freed, Franklin, and Dee

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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy...  it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. - Malcolm Turnbull ...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

G. K. Chesterton

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in t...

From the Preface to "Leaves of Grass"

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Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legisl...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Major Sooth

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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Sooth: The Coercive Corporations

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The context is this: Hong Kong, a free, liberal, democratic, self-governing city was handed over to the powers that be in Beijing — a clutch...
Monday, July 1, 2019

You Should See How the “Environmental Generation” Leaves the Beaches

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Glastonbury Festival attendees leave plastic bottles and trash strewn across grounds Here, while you're at it, please read this .

Sooth

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“One used to hear the harshest racial rhetoric from society’s bottom rungs. Now one hears it from academic and political elites.” - Glenn Re...

This is Going to Get Out of Control Very Soon

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All beaches in the United States are public, at least from the line of high tide.  The greed-heads are now experimenting with blocking acces...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

I Try to Stay Out of Politics, but Mendacity and Hypocrisy Kinda Get on Top of Me

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Former President Barack Obama’s top immigration chief in charge of removing illegal immigrants said that the “cages” Democrats have accused...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

But, But, But...Plastic Straws

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Just eight countries in the region are responsible for about 63 percent of total plastic waste flowing into the oceans. Little of that junk ...

This is Why There is Commandment #9

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Inventing Victimhood: Universities too often serve as “hate-crime hoax” mills.
Friday, June 28, 2019

D.A. Levy and the Cleveland Beats

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“If you want a revolution grow a new mind and do it quietly if you can” I taught poetry in schools and colleges for nineteen years...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Thursday's Place: Coventry Road

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There is one in every city, although by the time we notice them they are on the verge of becoming tourist traps.  The stages are familiar...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Well, It's Not Frisco 2019, That's for Sure

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FRISCO 1956: THE BEST OF TIMES? As for "Frisco" today, go here , if you dare.  The fact they've been able to hold onto that ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

More Reading, More Surf Noir

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Two books featuring private eye Boone Daniels, who would much rather be surfing than getting involved in the darkness found in contempo...

Even Jesus Warned of Such

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I spent a very long time the other day listening to gas about this guy from some of his followers. JMJ, Christianity isn’t alone in having ...

Additional Summer Reading

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Another surf noir novel from Kem Nunn.  It, too, is filled with murder, betrayal, revenge, and surfing.  It ain't James Patterson.
Monday, June 24, 2019

Not to Be Self-Serving, But Regular Religious Participation Would Reverse This

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School has Robbed Young People of Their “Why”

Writing, as Opposed to Ideological Posturing

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Great Writing by Women  Some you may know, others not.  Certainly, one cannot say enough about the quality of Martha Gellhorn's war re...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Alfred Pierce Reck

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"I didn't say get the story.  I said get the kid his peaches." In the 1970's, in part of my mad scramble to pay my ...