Politics
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It’s been a minute since I shared a podcast. Primarily, it’s because I haven’t watched many lately. Kathy and I had what I dubbed our “Round, round, get around, we get around” Beach Boys summer. Summer 2026 was our first without a dog in twenty-four years. So, instead of diving into intellectual spaces, we decided…
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The people who oppose immigration are just being plain mean. But as Howard Beal, a mad prophet of the airwaves, once asked, “What does that have to do with the price of rice?” Over the past few years, Kathy and I watched as some of our empty-nest friends, although reluctantly, allowed their adult children to…
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Beginning in 2023, Jordan Peterson organized a conference he called ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship). It’s a multi-day conference featuring many speakers touching on many topics worth paying attention to. The conference takes me a week-plus to fully devour on YouTube. The 2026 iteration of ARC featured some speakers who helped Jordan Peterson launch the…
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It has been well documented that there has been a sharp uptick in anxiety and depression as a result of the Covid 19 virus, the way the disease was handled, the vaccine, or all three. Marry that issue to the day’s sexual politics, which have sent young men and women into neutral corners where they…
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In what was dubbed “Operation Cyclone,’” the U.S. furnished the Mujahedin with the weapons and cash they needed to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Iraq fired SCUD missiles that they acquired courtesy of the Soviets at the U.S. for intervening in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait; the U.S. coughed up a billion or so…
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The art of foreign policy is quite simple: it’s a good guy, making a deal with a bad guy, to get rid of a worse guy. Then, afterward, you’re left with a dilemma: Can the “good guy” control the bad guy? Can he rein him in when he acts up, and if so, will the…
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The following is a piece that I swiped from my “Perspectives” page. I wrote it as a thought exercise to help me process the impact of technological advances on the five generations currently living. As we’re about to say goodbye to the first quarter of the 21th century, the words seem more relevant than when…
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Let’s kick this post off with a limerick. Here we go: There lived a man from North Carolina- Who owed a shitload of money to China- When looking over the note- He started to bloat- And dropped dead the next day from angina- ***** Hey, Michael, so whatcha been thinking about? I’ve been thinking a…
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Because “American” is not an ethnicity, and “America” is essentially a patchwork quilt, she’s a nation devoid of a definable culture or a cultural aspect not mutually exclusive to market inventions. But that doesn’t preclude her from having an ethos, a vibe, or an atmosphere. For example, football, autumn, and Thanksgiving, on their own merits,…
