PRE-NOTE: Today is the 87th anniversary of signing of the Act beginning Social Security. More here. Three other recent posts accessible here. * Saturday we attended the Installation ceremony for the new Pastor of Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Fr. Daniel Griffith. It was an impressive and spiritual occasion, not overly formal, very positive, […]
PRENOTE: My personal views on this issue are at the end of the post. See “Personal View”. Previous posts this week, here and here. There will be a few on other topics in coming days. Check back. Tuesday Aug 9, 2022, was Minnesota’s Primary Election. I voted at about 7:30 a.m. and I was very impressed with the […]
PRENOTE: I’ve previously identified the on-line event relating to this with several very interesting remaining segments Aug 10, 17, 24, 31. Details are here. Please note especially Aug. 10. Pre-registration is required for each segment, and early registration is recommended. This is worth your time. Take a look at the descriptors and enroll. * I watched […]
77 years ago today, the horror of the Atomic Bomb was unleashed over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the act was repeated at Nagasaki. The debate will never end. The act must never be forgotten, or repeated. Here are two remembrances about the bomb, and the folly and the myth of war itself. First, a […]
This post publicizes three distinct but directly related events in the next month and a half. #1 and #2 are in progress now. #3 is in September. My July 29 post began with the below note, specifically related to #1, below: PRE-NOTE to everyone: August 6 and 9 are the 77th anniversary of the atomic […]
Companion post, Voters, here. I am, and you and every else are, “politics”. The “them” we like to despise, really is US, period. Two years ago, August 1 and 2, 2020, I did two posts on successive days about U.S. politics, and where I stood and why. The two posts remain unchanged and pertinent, and […]
August 1 is 99 Days to the 2022 Election (Nov. 8). Every single person is, and has to be, the difference maker in a democratic republic as ours still is, and hopefully remains. In 2020, there were about 240,000,000 eligible voters in the United States, of whom 158 million actually voted. 81, 282,632 voted for […]
PRE-NOTE to everyone: August 6 and 9 are the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is a significant on-line event relating to this with segments Aug 3, 6, 10, 17, 24, 31. Details are here. Pre-registration is required for each segment, and early registration is recommended. This is worth your […]
Tonight on prime time (Thursday July 21) is the 8th hearing of the Jan. 6 committee. Following are some personal observations. UPDATE July 22: Heather Cox Richardson, July 21, 2022 * July 13, 2022. After the last Hearing on July 12, I recalled the old saying: “give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself“. […]
PRE-NOTE: What is North Dakota about? This year you have the advantage of a new book which I’ve publicized at this space two or three times, and continue to highly recommend: ” Clay Jenkinson’s “The Language of Cottonwoods. Essays on the Future of North Dakota”. There are many reviews. Here’s the Table of Contents: […]