Ink Stained Wretches in the 21st

The night Castro died I was at my daughter’s house for the weekend. With three granddaughters from age 3 to 7 and 5000 square feet if gets loud and  fun when the grandparents come for the weekend.

After the kids are watching Frozen for the (insert improbable large number  here) time, the adults usually do what happens in a quiet moment these days and check their phones.

My daughter informs me that Castro has died. I look for a web site that has the story and find none. I ask her to check her sources and she tells me it is all over Twitter. None of my three newsfeeds has it, neither does CNN, Fox, ABC, or AP.

She shows me her twitter feed. I had flirted with … Continue reading

Can We Fix the Federal Judicial System?

There has been a long-standing problem, in my opinion, within our federal judicial system in that, somehow, even though I suspect almost all judges have completed law school, passed a bar exam, and practiced law, legal decisions track politics very closely. In other words, there are left-leaning judges who go with the Left and there are right-leaning judges who go with the Right. And it has gotten to be a fairly reliable pattern. I happen to be an originalist, at least in my own sense of the word, I like the original intent approach to interpreting the Constitution. Scalia was my type of SC Justice and Thomas is even better. The Left likes to change that meaning without going through an amendment process. So how come federal judges … Continue reading

Killers Among Us

?Can someone please explain all the huffing and puffing that’s come up over Trump’s comment that we’re killers too.

?Is it just that modern society has so isolated itself from killing that it no longer recognizes its need and utility.

I am hardly a fan of Putin. It isn’t that he’s a killer; it’s that he’s a thug, a gangster. Stealing that Super Bowl ring is a great example of that. But one should not ever doubt that we have killers among us and that they are necessary for the life of the society.

Best In Show

I watched Lady Gaga  demonstrate how to deliver the goods to her audience and show business in particular.

I was impressed. After seeing Madonna at the March of The Annoyed and Annoying , being victimized by celebrity videos and the culture they represent, growing angry at the performers who could not bring themselves to perform at the Inauguration , she rolled out what it means to be a professional and put on one heckuva show.

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I would like to think she valued her audience, but she also valued her craft and knew any ‘statement’ would be the only thing remembered.

So, the Immaterial … Continue reading

To BDB Members- A Question

I have a tendency to post short shots with a few images of what is on my mind, to stimulate conversation. I have written long pieces but my life rarely allows that.

I am worried that I am filling up the site with posts and it has never been my intention to be the only person posting. I have no desire to be unwelcome here. So I will pause from posting and ask the following:

  • Am I writing too much ?
  • Is it ‘shallow’ and simple and would you prefer fewer but longer pieces?
  • Do you come here for conversation or to just read the post and move on?
  • I adapted this style based on a few concepts in attracting people:

  • A site like this needs regular followers … Continue reading
  • Super Sunday Blues- Updated

    It’s Superbowl Sunday and I seem to have lost my enthusiasm. Between the knee taking and the Progressive twaddle of the halftime and the demonization of Brady I hit a limit.

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    I used to be a fan but a certain crowd seems intent on preaching to me as a paying customer.

    That really gets  my hackles up.

    Just like when the government tells me I am deplorable and need to think better, and funds dangerously divisive diversity dung masquerading as social improvement.

    Now we have District Judges declaring the executive branch needs to convince them the actions are needed.  Not constitutional, … Continue reading

    More Media Matters

    I watched the press briefing today on Whtiehouse.gov.

    The first half of the session took questions from local reporters via Skype.  The questions were varied, and actual , you know, questions instead of carefully worded gotcha bombs we got from the Washington contingent.

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    South Florida wanted to know about Cuba policy. Imagine.

    The local media made the Washington goons look like thugs and weasels.  I understand they will be bringing in bloggers and such this way also.

    You should see it for yourself, you may make it a daily watch.

    This is a significant notch in attacking the media warfare arm of the … Continue reading