Yet another rotten email
Back in the day when I was still viewed as respectable by my fellow military officers I used to get a lot of emails. Some of them were funny. Some of them surprisingly steamy. But a number of them...
View ArticleThe very high cost of our second amendment right
Last week a seven year old girl was killed with a gun. The incident happened during a botched robbery that sparked a gunfight between the resident of the house and the robber. It was not clear from...
View ArticleWhat I shall do with my tax cuts
Good evening. Let me introduce myself to those who do not know me. I have been on DK for awhile now, occasionally posting, mostly making sardonic comments about this or that piece of cant, hypocrisy...
View ArticleMichigan Congressman: HR3 and the introduction of the reproductive police state
Being a progressive in Michigan is relatively painless compared to being one in Oklahoma, Tenessee or Utah; in fact it is one of the advantages in living in a state with an otherwise depressed...
View ArticleBooks that Changed My Life: Dhalgren, Samuel Delaney and a Refreshing breath...
"To wound the autumnal city" So howled out the book to me And demanded a reading and a read-over after I had finished.
View ArticleIn Memorium: The death of a real compassionate conservative
Yesterday it was announced that Bernadine Healy M.D., had died of complications from cancer at the age of 67.For all this bullshit that we used to get exposed to about 'compassionate conservatism' -...
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"R&BLERS":Tuesday Newsletter: The kindle, the lendle, the luddite and the...
"In the heart of every notary lies the moldy remains of a poet" Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"This is a diary that was...
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A Book so Bad it Changed my Life. . .and bring out the Brickbats: The...
I suppose it's just as well I am writing this on Thanksgiving because I am going to delve into a work that many would consider a genuine turkey: 'The Fountainhead', by Ayn RandMy God, this is a troll...
View ArticleA Book that Can Change Lives: The Swerve
In writing the intro I came across a diary documenting a felow Kossack's conversion, one would say journey, from belief to atheism. You can read it here. I certainly sympathize with the diarist, and...
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My Favorite Authors: Inaugural Edition The 400 year Old Blogger
Co-Editors Note: This is the first of what we hope to be an ongoing series of Readers and Book Lovers writing about their favorite authors. It is intended to be complementary to diaries dealing with...
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My Favorite Authors: Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
For this installment of favored authors, I thought I would write about a writer who was also an illustrator, in a very distinct style. It is interesting that he majored in English, not art when he was...
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My Favorite Authors: JRR Tolkien, the Lord of Fantasy and Imagination
I would like to say at the outset I had a little hesitation in e-penning this particular diary; not because I don't feel strongly on the topic - there isn't much that is literary that I don't feel...
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My Favorite Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien and more on the Lord of Fantasy and...
Tolkien is hobbit forming -Anonymous American Graffito One of the hallmarks of a professor is never knowing when to stop talking. Or writing. I had thought I...
View ArticleAwards: The good and the bad
As a followup of some of my previous diaries, I cannot resist announcing the following award:A Pulitzer prize for non-fiction for one of my favorite books of all times, one I have recommended...
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My Favorite Authors: Rudyard Kipling, the man who wrote stories just so.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling Greetings Kossacks. For this...
View ArticleIn Which I Smack Down 'The Economist' for an Unnatural Display of Mitt-love
I find that many people on this board, being broad minded, intellectually curious and interested in the world around them, read a variety of journals. This, at any rate, is my excuse for reading The...
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My Favorite Authors: What Progressives can get out of Kipling's verse
OK, I promise, this is the last in the my favorite authors series I am going to be doing about dead white European males - not that I have exhausted the subject, but I fear I get tiresome on this, and...
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My Favorite Authors: Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra and the Glass Ceiling of Antiquity
As promised I am taking a break from dead white European males to write about an author who is 1) living, 2)a woman and 3) Doesn't even write fiction,. but there is nothing in the MFA bylaws that says...
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My Favorite Authors: Stephen King, his Vampires, and the Meaning of Fear
I am standing up in the water's edge in my dream I cannot make a single sound as you scream It can't be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch We...
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My Favorite Authors: A Call for Contributors
Greetings Kossacks. In place of our usual praiseworthy prose pumping our favored scribblers - and the occasional subtle insertion of a moral or historical tale, or even the assertion that a certain...
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