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

Telegrams during the Civil War

It’s always fascinating to review the source artifacts of history, devoid of editorialization and selective interpretation… I found this photograph on-line of President Lincoln’s brief telegram to General Grant from August 17, 1864 – nearly 160 years ago (see image

Democrat Food For Thought

I don’t recall where I came across these images, but they sum up the most basic political questions very succinctly. Here is an interesting fact to buttress the claim above: 19 of the top 20 cities in the US with

Popular Mechanics Goes Political

I’ve commented previously that many of the engineering and technical journals have started outsourcing the writing to so-called ‘journalists’.  That is, writers that don’t really have a passion or the insights for the topic are creating sophomoric stories.   In this

COVID, Democrats, and Lunacy

Is there a pattern there?  Have the Democrat Governors and Mayors just lost their minds? The Mayor of Los Angeles came to a press conference where he ordered every Los Angeles resident to wear a face mask to get “more