The paranoid citizens among us like to talk frequently about backroom conspiracies. A half-century ago, the logistics for organizing a conspiracy were much more complicated than today. With the advent of the Internet, remote meetings, and list servers (not to
Month: July 2020
Drag Racing at Kil-Kare
I was on my 40-mile bicycle ride this morning, which took us right past Kil-Kare Motor Speedway. This raceway is located approximately 10 miles east of Dayton. The place was packed, and of course the drag racers were loud, so
Leftists, Language, and Social Justice
People seem to forget that Leftists frequently operate in the world of word-play and euphemisms. Orwell highlighted this attempt at mastery-of-thought in many of his novels. As an example, citizens frequently discover that the phrase, title, or expression associated with
Pravda and New York Times
I get a kick out of people that consider the New York Times to be the “the paper of record” for news around the world. The NYT ably represents everything that is wrong with large corporations and journalism. In a