If the Secret Service has come for me by the time you read this, please write me in jail. I tried to warn Vice-President Kamala Harris’ retinue that if the secret location of her Tuesday speech was the UNR Student Union’s fourth-floor theater, she would be walking into a fire trap. That theater is unsafe. (Barbwire 12-12-2013) The site was never disclosed because of … [Read more...]
Intestinal Fortitude
Strength. Determination. Drive. The burning desire to get something done, whatever the something is that has been put in your line of sight. All of those things constitute intestinal fortitude. We all have those traits to some degree. But. Yes an intestinal driven “but.” When I see something that must have taken not only intestinal fortitude but a vision. Oh my brain goes into … [Read more...]
An earful of cider
“One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an … [Read more...]
Doom and Grin
Strange events that come into our lives sometimes come more than once in different circumstances. But! Yes a strangely different “but.” The sameness comes through no matter the differences. For instance… Some time ago my father-in-law, LaVerne and I were out bailing hay one warm summer night. The moon was about half so there was some moonlight and we would go back and forth, … [Read more...]
Let’s stop doing stupid stuff
Pushback has finally come for the dumb things we as a society said and did against cops after the murder of George Floyd. First, we’ve rejected the “defund the police” movement. Virtually no community entertains that nutty notion anymore, not even Chicagoans who recently gave their mayor the boot for, among other things, her lousy performance on crime and … [Read more...]
Who will answer?
From the canyons of the mind We wander on and stumble blindly Through the often tangled maze Of starless nights and sunless days While asking for some kind of clue Or road to lead us to the truth But who will answer?* Might we in this fortress nation finally be feeling a twinge of the pain our peers suffer all across our little blue marble spaceship? All … [Read more...]
A Sloth, A Turtle and A Squirrel…
We all move at different paces. Paces change with the tasks we are preforming. The performance of tasks is directly related to a few factors. First of course is if we even want to do whatever is on our list of things to do. I need to write every week. I can zoom through a writing task like water through a colander. But! Yes a somewhat sloth like “but.” Ask me to take clothes … [Read more...]
Untrustworthy trustees
The Washington political class is talking big about the accountability of bank executives after last week’s round of regional bank failures. They want to allow regulators to impose tougher penalties, such as clawing back past compensation and the authority to bar bad bankers from opening another bank after a failure. All this is fine. But, if we want to get serious about … [Read more...]