Category: Bits and Pieces

Over the past several years, about once a year, a friend announces that she’s getting a divorce. What’s interesting is the pattern I see in the marriages that don’t last (and most of my friends are in marriages that are lasting). The breakdown seems to be bounded by wants and

Swim meet, concert, birthday party — whew!  It’s definitely one of those days, so blogging will be nonexistent for a while.  Please feel free to use this as an open thread.  If your comments get sucked into “spam” or “moderation” (a problem I’ve almost, but not completely, solved), I’ll retrieve

American Thinker reminds us that today is the 64th Anniversary of D-Day. I wonder how many young Americans know that, before D-Day, and barring some English-based bombing raids that did not involve “feet on the ground” fighting, America’s War had taken place entirely in the Pacific. Europe had been mostly

When I was 12 or 13, I used to have heated discussions with my father about Communism.  Even then I had the wit to see that Communism’s major failing is its denial of human nature.  Daddy, one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, had been so indoctrinated in Communism

It’s not new (or news) to me, but Mark Steyn has put a pithy spin on the horrors of female feticide in Asian and East Asian countries — and on the probable results that will from from the massive demographic skewing these murders create.

I very much like John Hawkin’s blog Right Wing News, which was one of the first conservative blogs I started reading when (a) I realized I was really a conservative in Democratic clothing and (b) I discovered the blogosphere.  It was one of the sites that helped me realize that

Blogging for me is, and always has been, a pleasure amounting to a compulsion. However, it recently occurred to me that, if I’m going to do this anyway, I might try to earn some money. It is sweet, after all, if your hobbies become remunerative. To that end, with a