TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

What do we call this?  Coincidence?  Foreshadowing? Relevant discussion re Sinclair Lewis' writing and modern politics , with a hat tip ...

Reposted from 2023, when I wrote this as a serious post.  Irrelevant now because of her death, but it seems appropriate for me to re-express...

Excerpts from the London Review of Books : Almost no politician​ writes his own books, and few people actually read them. J.D. Vance is diff...

Found in The Babylon Bee ("Fake News You Can Trust"), where there is tongue-in-cheek discussion of the topic.

Image of Haley Joel Osment from his Oscar-nominated performance in the movie The Sixth Sense .  Updated with a cultural reference to current...

Pastor Paula White (2nd L) and other faith leaders pray behind US President Donald Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose G...

Late last night I was browsing the Al Jazeera English channel, looking for early clues as to whether to expect any change in the adamant pos...

This morning while doomscrolling I saw a headline indicating that the Department of Justice would be indicting former FBI Director James Com...

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's April 13 " Letters from an American " - Just as there is a blueprint for destroying d...

From the time I left my house until I got back it was 11 minutes on my phone's stopwatch.  A simple ballot and an efficient crew at our ...

Found on Facebook.

Reposted in 2026 from 2016 to remind readers once again of what can happen when the United States (and Israel) decide to institute "re...

The embed is from Facebook, which is often unreliable.  But I found confirmation in The Guardian .   The 21-year-old man who was shot and ki...

Hats off to the Minnesota Star Tribune for posting this pair of images side-by-side.  I had seen the photo on the right and wanted to use i...

Apparently the phrase on the podium is real rathe than faked.  And it appears to be an official Homeland Security creation: The podium sign ...

For fox ache.   The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, says that four of its tribal members were recent...

I have a new favorite president. Before reading this book, literally the only things I knew about James Garfield were that he was featur...