What is the responsibility of sports fans towards their teams? It is a question I’ve legitimately been wrestling […]
Vocation
No matter what side of the political spectrum we hold to, it would be hard not to admit […]
“Great Things are Achieved by Embracing Great Danger” – Xerxes I’d like to pretend that I was sitting […]
The late comedian Rodney Dangerfield was famous for quipping, “I get no respect.” That line showed up in some way, shape, or form in most of the films he was famous for. Dangerfield typically played the role of bumbling but loveable idiot, who somehow managed to come out on top. But even though he came out on top, he still “got no respect.”
So, in my last blog I introduced you to my newest obsession, my 1968 VW Type II Double […]
Jack Donovan in his book Becoming a Barbarian has a chapter titled “The Empire of Nothing.” In it he offers a compelling critique of our current political and cultural milieu. In fact, he argues that it isn’t so much a culture that is being forwarded but an anticulture where there is no “Emperor, no center and no people.” Instead, the Empire of Nothing is a collection of businesses and institutions that have aligned against identity in some vague hope of “progress.”
In preparation for the coming election, I had to re-sign my voter registration record. In addition to a […]
During the Covid-19 health crisis, I think that we have all accepted the restrictions placed upon us by […]
Sometimes she lost her mind. Rinsing, chopping. Gathering stirring. What did all of it mean. Emotions that should […]
In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live […]