I’m sharing this article from Independent Journal Review just to make a point. Independent Journal Review: Those Outraged At Trump Blocking Refugees Didn’t Seem To Care About What Obama Did To Cubans I […]
Through a glass darkly
Trey Gowdy has something to say to Trump
I hope he says it soon.
Rural elites: I’ve had it with the arrogance of ignorance (and its promoters)
The only thing worse than the willfully ignorant is the legion of apologists enabling them. Since the election – before, really – we’ve heard a lot of talk about how all those urban […]
Streamside: Happy Solstice from Scholars & Rogues
The darkest song ever sung: “Coventry Carol” (Saturday Video Roundup)
Remembering the blackest moment of the entire nativity cycle is an odd way to celebrate. For a couple weeks now I have been assembling my “Dark Christmas Melancholy” playlist, a process I described […]
Greg Lake, RIP
Yesterday I added Greg Lake’s “I Believe in Father Christmas” to my Dark Christmas Melancholy playlist. This morning I wake to learn he’s gone. Another light snuffed by this hellish, hateful year, […]
A dark holiday playlist – and one man’s melancholy war with childhood
There is beauty in the darkness. This is all I have ever known. Beauty doesn’t work the same for me as it does for most people. I first started realizing this in […]
A dreary walk in the woods … then magic
Saturday dawned gray, cold, and wet. A light mist eased through the forest at my university. But a day walking in the woods with a camera is a good day, no matter […]
The consolations of literature…
Life is a jest; and all things show it/ I though so once; but now I know it. – John Gay It’s just words, folks, just words…. – Donald Trump Friends […]
Next time, ask the Reagan question before you vote
On January 1, 2019, as President Trump approaches his third state of the union address, people in America should pop the Reagan question: Are you better off than you were four years ago? […]
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