Aside from the Cancel Culture using the shifting verbal sands as a cudgel, some once-innocuous words, phrases, and symbols, through no fault of their own,
Month: May 2024
On Proustian pastimes
As promised! Here are two of my favorite passages from the eternally impending The Curmudgeon: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor. – Paul Tsongas It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who
On the lack of local government prescience
Given their particular penchant for flights of fancy, for specific reference purposes, we’ll focus on various Geneva, Illinois, mayor and city council. Though this mien
On speaking and removing all doubt
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. – Often attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham
Slating needs to go, but not this way!
Don’t trust idiots! – J. B. Pritzker Talk about something cogent coming straight from the horse’s mouth! It’s hard to argue with the Governor when,
The Paramount still sucks!
I wasn’t going to cover this stupidity because it might be considered a bit self-serving. But when describing the silly scenario to a favorite friend,
So now Dollar Stores are the root of all evil?
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. – Frank Herbert First, those pasty white Machine politicians
Quick Hits May 7, 2024
Let’s catch up and follow up on some of the stories that have figured so prominently here over the years. He got a what? And
Our suburban mayors’ entitlement mentality is quite taxing
We haven’t tackled our local governments’ unrepentantly voracious taxation entitlement mentality for quite some time. This omission hasn’t been due to a lack of opportunity,