A sickly, self-hating guilt has become the civil religion of the Western world. This viewpoint has been gradually, unwittingly accepted by a broad spectrum of well-meaning people. Without any conscious choice, many are stumbling blindly along a path of misery. Just after Easter of of 2011, we were all given a striking example of where [...]
August in Arkansas. If you’ve ever experienced it you don’t want to again. Kinda like having an out-of-touch President. But it might be useful. Just as hard exercise hurts but may be useful. But only if you use the experience wisely. An Arkansas August can help you appreciate the North, but won’t help those [...]
Sympathy for your enemies? Should you wish the best for a President whose policies you adamantly oppose? Some may call this Sympathy for the Devil. In that song of our youth, the devil urges us to ”have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste” and be polite. Those in power always want their suffering [...]
When a President tells NASA that its primary mission is to make Muslims feel good about their contribution to science, it’s clear why the US has fallen so far in science and technology. This is the type of patronizing psychobabble that only an affirmative action baby could truly believe in. The boss of the [...]
Strong women and men don’t settle for second best. They look for potential and create the future. The first two professions, nomadic herder and settled farmer, are in eternal conflict. In the Bible and the Koran, these two are represented by Cain and Abel. God liked the nomad best, but the farmer won. The settler [...]
Why do so many try to prove Obama is weak, ineffective, out-of-touch, mendacious, even anti-American? Many of his supporters won’t be convinced. To them, he’s a phenomenon who will straighten out all that is wrong with America. I hope he is, but he seems more like an epiphenomenon. In other words, he’s a side effect [...]
It’s hard to find anyone saying anything good about Russians nowadays. Yet almost to a man, Russians all agree they love America in one respect. They love its inventions. One time in Ukraine my translator was waxing poetic about his American razor where a piece of plastic came down between the two blades and cleared [...]
Billy Bob Bubba on the DIRE FINANCIAL CRISIS You may not know too many of the parallel universes familiar to cosmologists [(and cosmetologists) we'll just call them all cosmos for short], where the normal rules are turned upside down and the traditional prudent warnings and laws no longer apply. Cosmos know these universes. They generate [...]