I don’t know why I didn’t write about the absurdity of both, decades ago. Maybe I, like most people, simply accept them because they are commonplace and seem innocuous. Get paid for not working or being sick? Maybe commonplace and expected, but not innocuous. Sick pay, is nothing more than an extra paid vacation. A […]
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature of the cause of the accusation; to be confronted with […]
We are mostly enraged at Biden goofing up hideously in the Afghanistan exodus, so I am now going to make your day a bit nicer…I hope. I wrote this a long time ago, and it isn’t dated, but undoubtedly in 2001 or earlier. Once, a long time ago in the fair city of Philadelphia, lived […]
‘Rag baby,’ was the commonly used nick-name for the greenback dollar, which was the North’s ‘dollar’ in the War Between the States, commonly called the ‘Civil War.’ The rag content of that paper dollar was so high, that the term ‘rag baby’ was born. Frank Bellew, a cartoonist popular in the 1860’s penned a rag […]
First things first, or at least as far back as will illustrate the current absurdity. Remember “Y2K?” That was years ago, when the calendar changed from 1999 t0 2000. ‘OMG, the computers will not do that. They will think it is zero, not 20o0, and everything will crash. All the computers will freeze, and we’ll […]
“Well, suppose they confiscate my gold just like Roosevelt did 75 (88) years ago?” If I have heard that once, I must have heard it a hundred times. Did Roosevelt confiscate everyone’s gold back in 1933? If he did, how come there’s still a lot of it for sale in a thousand coin shops and […]
First line from a column I wrote August 1, 2002: “Gold broke $300 this morning.” Maybe this line will make you realize the folly of storing surplus wealth in dollars. Whenever there are improvements in anything, the manufacturers, sellers, parts dealers, and those who repair the items, lose their jobs. When diesel-electric locomotives became 100% […]
From a column I wrote August 16. 2002 I come for visit, get treated regal. So I stay, who care, I illegal? I cross border, poor and broke, take bus, see employment folk. Nice man, treat me good in there, say I need to see welfare. Welfare say, “You come no more, we send cash […]
I am of the ever-increasing opinion that America is going down the tubes. As an example, see various idiots, who have decided that they are not happy being a male or female, so they ingest huge amounts of hormones, trying to change their bodies and minds. They’re ‘equal,’ and can all use the same rest […]
Part of a column I wrote on April 12, 2002 […]