Phone Books
Not all that long ago, while traveling overseas, I'd find a phone booth and call my family to confirm I was still alive. I even memorized my AT&T calling card…
Meandering Thoughts #63
The terms clockwise and counter-clockwise -anti-clockwise for those whom speak the King's English - is most often used to describe traversing the circumference of a circle. For example, a roundabout…
Marching Band Nostalgia #3
I recently posted about my high school marching band days and then found myself watching a Iowa girls' basketball district playoff game at the high school gym; however, since my…
Meandering Thoughts #62
As seen at Cathedral of St. Paul. What defines legitimate "home use?" The obvious use is for home stoups for whom need to bless themselves as they enter/leave someone's home.…
Book Review #4
Jill Eicher's book Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans At War tells the post-World War I battles between the United States and its allies - primarily the…
Journalism Fuck-Up
From the Independent's article about the attempted robbery of Simone Biles' husband Milan Olympics: For those uninformed, Mikaela Shiffrin is a female skier, not a male ice skater. Obviously it's…
Marching Band Nostalgia II
I've previously post my love of marching bands: the stories I could tell are trivial to most. Scattered across the country - likely world - are 112 people whose story…
Abolish ICE!
As seen on TNT during Unrivaled, someone sitting immediately behind the announcers wearing a very political t-shirt. Absolutely kick-ass. Presuming that TNT wanted to avoid this political maelstrom, I originally…
Scary Times, Predicted
I'm still working my way through Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich, in which he gives a riveting account of Germany's inter-war history, from World…
Book Review #3
In the translated book Planning in the USSR by I.A. Yevenko, the communist hyperbole and delusion begins immediately with the Author's Notes on page 5: The system of socialist planned…