Sometimes I sit here and read back over the last few days’ posts and wonder how I got to where I got to. This morning, I’m chalking it up to lack of sleep. But since I did manage to sleep through last night, let me give it one more try. In the initial post on…

It was one of those odd coincidences.  I was reading the comments for the last blog yesterday while I was watching a retrospective on the Apollo 11 moon landing–yesterday was 45 years since we first walked on the moon. If the two things seem to have nothing to do with each other, give me a…

One of the things that happens to me sometimes is that I get so tired, I can’t get myself to move even though moving would definitely do me good. That happened to me a couple of nights ago, on the same day I had the terrible headache, and it resulted in what it usually does: …

I usually think it’s a very bad sign when I come off writing with a screaming awful headache, and here I am sitting at the computer at the end of the morning with a screaming awful headache. What’s more, I just went out and put Beethoven on the player, and not just any Beethoven, but…

Let me ask the kind of question that probably has no answer, and whose result is usually just getting everybody annoyed. Is there such a thing as an “authentic culture?”  And if there is, is everything in that culture equally “authentic?” I’m asking the question because, after I posted the blog yesterday, there was a…

I’ve spent the last week or so watching all the stories of the “children on the border,” and very carefully not saying anything about it. This is mostly because I don’t think anything can be said that will actually be listened to. “Children on the border” has become our flavor of the month.  The game…

Yesterday was my birthday, and as these things go, I had a Grand Plan about what to do with it. The blog part of the Grand Plan had to do with talking about a book I love that I love just because I love it, if that makes any sense.  I have no sensible reason…

I am beginning to think that there must be some cosmic reason why so many of the things I start out thinking will be easy to write end up in such a muddle. Muddled I am, however, and the only excuse I can think of is that there must be some kind of point at…

Okay, start here: http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/09/media-ignorance-becoming-serious-problem/ The above is a link a friend of mine sent me yesterday, and that I put up on FB near the end of the afternoon, because really– Well, go read it.  Ignorance in the media.  But not the way you think.  And not the way we usually talk about it. And…

I looked over the comments from yesterday and found myself wishing that I could find a way so that all of you could read just one chapter of Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, chapter XIII, “The Road to Life Adjustment.” In looking over the post, I’ve decided that the misunderstanding was entirely my fault. …