Hillbilly Soliloquy

Since my last post, for the first time since World War II, Russia was invaded. Inexperienced and unwilling Russian conscripts threw down their weapons and readily surrendered as battle-hardened Ukrainian troops took ground in the western Kursk region, maneuvering behind the Russian artillery, missile and rocket resources that Putin had been using to attack “strategic… Continue reading Hillbilly Soliloquy

Supreme Irony

As the New Year dawns, America girds its loins for its most crucial national election since 1864, when Abraham “Rail Splitter” Lincoln ran against his former Commanding General of the Army, George B. “Fuss and Feathers” McClellan. The major issue then was, of course, America’s Original Sin, racism, embodied at the time in a fratricidal… Continue reading Supreme Irony

The Donald Went Down to Georgia

After work last Thursday evening, I arrived at my home in Great Falls, Virginia around eight, poured myself three fingers of Glenmorangie 21 on some Icelandic glacier shards and settled down on the couch to relax listening to a rare direct-to-disk recording of Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony… Continue reading The Donald Went Down to Georgia

Bang Bang Donald’s Silver Hammer Came Down Upon His Head

Who needs a consultant? I know there are at least two ways to interpret that question, and I am going to assume that readers of this Web Log might be wondering about the answer that would consist of a list of the types of individuals who prevail upon the likes of Yours Truly for analyses,… Continue reading Bang Bang Donald’s Silver Hammer Came Down Upon His Head

19 Buenos Tipos Con Armas Pero Sin Cojones

It’s Memorial Day weekend 2022, and since New Year’s Day, the United States of America has averaged three mass shootings every two days. Cerise’s latest issue of The New Yorker, which arrived in her mail yesterday, opened the Talk of the Town with a Comment entitled “Gun Country.” It concerned a massacre committed by one… Continue reading 19 Buenos Tipos Con Armas Pero Sin Cojones