Caveat Emptor

Without a warranty, as the buyer we assume the risk when purchasing that our purchase will reflect the quality we expect. Too bad this littlr principlle doesn’t apply to politicians probably because they can guarantee nothing, so the voter only has to hope their elected favorites will be greased in quality. Half the country is […]

Positive and Negative

If you poke your nose just below the surface of ignorance, you will find two forces at opposition to each other but essential to the whole working. Positive and negative are partners whether in understanding lightening strikes, or the batteries that run your life, to the attitude between your ears. When positive and negative make […]

A World of Absolutes

It is great fun when cramming for the finals, to review where I erred and what worked. Mostly I erred, so last evening, feeling unusually brazen and burned by 71 years, I curled up under the futon with my dog, two blankets and my little 818ND QRP radio from Yaesu. It’s max power is only […]

My Conversation with Putin

Even though Ukraine is not a member of NATO, the threat of them joining caused Putin to invade Ukraine. And NATO’s role is to protect European countries from being invaded by Russia. Clearly something is amiss in Paradise. Give Putin credit. He told us he was bringing armed forces to said country’s borders and was […]

-25 f but Who is Counting

It has been a winter with six weeks of Arctic sub zero weather. I usually take it in stride until some cold got a hold of me and shook me like a quaking aspen leaf and I ended up in bed for almost three weeks. It could have been Covid but the symptoms did not […]

Zac Taylor’s Big Meltdown

For a few reasons, I watched the Super Bowl between the Rams and Bengals. It is not very often that the architect of one team’s getting there, also directed that team’s loss to the Rams. With less than two minutes to go, the Bengals faced three downs to get one yard so they had either […]

Masters Hockey and Basketball

There ain’t nothing like a wannabe. And there ain’t nothing more fun than being put out of commission with a serious injury when you have an adult life to lead. Yesterday, a good friend called to tell me how excited he was to play in the weekly Saturday b-ball game. And the best part was […]

The Weirdest Play in the History of Football

I decided to break the winter blahs by watching the Chiefs and Bengals break their brains and bodies over a piece of leather with a bladder filled with air for which they get paid for it. To the quick. Mahommes seems to be losing his first half heroics. In the second half he appears to […]

Brandon Staley’s Brand of B.S.: Deliverance

For a guy who survived cancer, Stayley should have learned about humility. Instead, he adopted arrogance. After his Chargers lost to the Chiefs when on a few occassions he opted to go for it on fourth and whatever, instead of kicking a field goal, and not getting a new series of downs, his team lost […]

Insurrection Day

We ought to make January 6th, a national holiday. Everyone can take a day off from work, congregate at the Capitol, ransack it, and then everyone go home and go back to work on the 7th. More or less that’s what happened in 2021. Some people have been jailed and maybe some will give way […]