(The Vice President will lead a blue-ribbon panel to figure out gun violence. He is broadly experienced in legislation to control firearms. Photo CNN.)   Yesterday’s rant was toned down considerably for the daily story but it still irritated some of my readers, one of whom observed (more in sorrow than anger) about my descent […]

Things have been very strange this holiday season. I was getting gas over at the base yesterday- the filler cap for the Panzer is, as is Mercedes style, on the right rear flank of the vehicle. Most American cars have them on the left. There were vehicles in modest lines to accommodate the Lefties, and […]

(Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, left, and School Psychologist Mary Sherlach. American Heroes.) The horror at Sandy Hook- those innocent kids gunned down, the heroic ladies who ran toward certain death to protect them- is not going to go away. The other outrages of public gun violence seemed to fade with the passage […]

(Accessories available for the Bushmaster AR-15 similar to the one carried by the shooter in the Sandy Hook shootings. Barrels under 15” require approval by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and are not legal in all states. Photo Bushmaster.com) I wonder what is going to happen in the wake of the tragedy at […]

(Here is the seasonal display on the front door to Refuge Farm. Photo Socotra.) I am down at the Farm, and slept well in the new bed, thank-you very kindly. I should have dreamed, and I did not, thank God. I had arrived in full darkness, not surprising for this time of the year I […]

(Video capture of the response to the shootings at Newtown. Image courtesy of Fox17.) We were sitting at the Amen Corner at Willow. It was a Friday that had not gone that well. The Budget Cliff had everyone a little jumpy, and the awful news was the only thing that could push that into the […]

I am not going to do it to you this morning. I am not going to talk about Detroit going bust, or the wild closing of the legislative session in Lansing, or anything like that. We have got enough trouble right here in River City, and I don’t even want to do that. You can’t […]

(President Warren G. Harding. A conservative politician from Ohio, Harding had few enemies because he rarely took a firm enough stand on an issue to make any.) “There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves […]

“The Ancient Mayan calendar speaks of 12-12-2012 as the end of times as we know it, and the beginning of a new cycle of evolution for planet earth, humanity and the cosmos. Mayan elders say that the Ancients were informing the modern world to be ready for a giant transformation for the human race…December 2012 […]

(The workers swarm up the flanks of Big Pink at 0730. Photo Socotra). I am up but groggy. I do not want to go to DIA this morning, but off I will have to go to make an eleven o’clock meeting. Even a full pot of Dazbog Russian Roast coffee TM is not having the […]