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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

To this blog's friends in Texas and Louisiana:

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Thoughts and prayers going out to you as Hurricane Laura approaches. Longtime readers know how much hurricanes and other tropical systems in...
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Sunday, August 16, 2020

A scenario

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 Something put together during the hour of the wolf: that time between 2 and 3 in the morning when you can't sleep and your mind is runn...
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Thursday, July 09, 2020

Unreliable Narrator, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Sequel Trilogy

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Many of you  by now are hearing the rumors: that Kathleen Kennedy is on the way out as matriarch of the Star Wars franchise.  That the opera...
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Monday, July 06, 2020

In memory of Charlie Daniels...

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Daniels and his band performing "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" in concert:
Saturday, June 27, 2020

It's June 27th! Time to play... THE LOTTERY

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The classic 1969 short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's eternally controversial horror tale: For a film now over fifty years ol...
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On race and human nature

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Several years ago I went to hear James Earl Jones give a lecture. He said something I will never forget. "Who am I? Obviously, I am...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

On race, history, honor, and statues

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This might upset some people. I can understand. Bear with me here though... In 1828 the United States Congress passed what came to be...
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Friday, June 12, 2020

Fried chicken... in an air fryer!

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A few weeks ago Amazon delivered a Ninja Foodi air fryer/pressure cooker into my grubby little paws.  Since then I have had a fistful of fun...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Regarding "racial justice"

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A thought that occurred tonight: The notion of "racial justice" is a wrong one.  The problem is that to have any kind of justice...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

This article was a heartbreaker to read...

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Let me preface this by stating from the start: I know fully well that bad cops exist.  There is a city in North Carolina that I am forever ...
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Friday, June 05, 2020

A photo for our time

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I've posted this photo before.  It seems more timely than ever. This picture ran in newspapers across America in the winter of 2012.  It...
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Thursday, June 04, 2020

Have been thinking more about the George Floyd case...

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Some additional notions that I have been pondering, though I said earlier that there would probably be nothing more that would be remarked...
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Sunday, May 31, 2020

All that I'll likely post about the George Floyd "protests"...

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Some are seriously suggesting that the looting taking place in the "protests" (note: they are not protests, they are bouts of p...
Friday, May 29, 2020

FORCERY is fifteen years old!

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It really does seem like just yesterday when we were slathering that fake blood all over Chad's legs, and making a springtime drive...
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

"The End" came to LOST ten years ago tonight (plus: some personal theories)

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It seems like an entirely other world ago now.  When the wait between new episodes could be not just weeks but months away.  There was no ...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

"This mountain don't dare blow up on old Harry!"

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Those were the words of one Harry Truman (no relation to that Harry S Truman) in the days prior to the eruption.  Truman had a lodge on the...
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