poking the american hornet’s nest

there’s always another this time

“The objectively stupidest president in our nation’s often boneheaded history, the undisputed clown-car king of This Time, attempted, via one of the oldest racist tropes in the old-white-man canon, to malign one of the smartest men ever to hold our highest office, along with one of the classiest, most accomplished and beloved of First Ladies.”

once more away from the breach, dear friends

I started this post, a pre-appraisal of this year of our wisely absent Lord, 2025, on the night of Dec. 31 of the previous one. It’s something I’ve undertaken in some fashion most New Year’s, for more than a decade now. But this time, I just stopped, right in the middle of it. I couldn’t …

par for the curse

In the game of golf, as in life, there are penalties. Without some repercussions built into the system, your bulbous neighbors Gareth and Becky Anne are soon enough dancing buck-wild nekkid in your shared driveway under the new strawberry moon, while your “president” is illegally deporting your fellow citizens to foreign countries where they yank …