Pray For Miracles

Life is full of disappointments but that’s no reason to be pessimistic. Keep the faith. Give optimism a chance.

And pray for miracles.

Rise Up – We’ve Got To Save Democracy!

So let’s see, what is the left going bonkers about this week?

First if all, as usual, Trump. How dare he be on the verge of a historic Middle Eastern peace deal. They hate peace, because…Trump. And Israel.

Second, Elon. Imagine the audacity of that man, building a rocket company that he took public thereby making some 5000 people millionaires and turning himself into a trillionaire. He doesn’t deserve it, dammit! I mean, come on, man, it’s not like it’s rocket science, oh wait…

And don’t get me started on the UFC cage match on the South lawn of the White House. The left has gone absolutely ballistic . Al Sharpton said it was like “fights for the slave masters.” Nobody knows exactly what that means, but we know it must be racist. And much of the political and cultural establishment (read: elitists) consider it an atrocity, demeaning to the Presidential grounds and rife with gladiator vibes. Based, however, on all manor of Hollywood, sports and musical acts presented during past Presidential administrations one would have to conclude that popular culture icons are not the problem. It’s only when popular culture icons don’t reflect the values and tastes of the elitists that it’s a threat to democracy. After all, they are the arbiters of what constitutes culture not the plebs. Ergo, elite foul mouth rappers, transgenders, sexual deviants and drag queens meet elite standards but UFC fights do not. Got it?

Dr. Jill and her “Merry Men” in the White House

Pride Week frolic on the South Lawn during Biden tenure

Whose Side Are They On?

How likely was Biden’s win in 2020?

Not very. About as likely as Spencer Pratt’s loss to what’s her name. She had the votes but not the voters.

And Republicans cannot even bring a vote on voter ID to the floor. Kind of makes you wonder whose side they’re on.

Aristocrats of Redistribution

Michael Smith’s ability to explain the unexplainable is right up there with Victor Davis Hanson’s. His recent essay on wealthy  progressives is worthy reading. Although you already know it you’ve likely not encountered it laid out as well.  Ayn Rand would be proud.

For me, the contradiction of the wealthy progressive is one of the strangest and most revealing phenomena in modern politics. It is a movement increasingly populated by people who denounce wealth while enjoying it, condemn privilege while benefiting from it, and romanticize collectivism while carefully insulating themselves from its consequences. The rich progressive is no longer an outlier on the modern Left. In many ways, he has become its defining symbol.

Examples are constant. Millionaires publicly demanding “higher taxes on the rich” while employing armies of accountants to ensure they surrender no more than absolutely necessary. Celebrities preaching climate austerity while crossing oceans on private jets to attend conferences about reducing carbon footprints. Affluent activists proclaiming solidarity with “the oppressed” while living in neighborhoods protected from the very social disorder their policies encourage. Increasingly, the children of privilege — people raised with wealth, access, influence, and safety — attach themselves to radical redistributive causes they themselves never seem willing to experience personally.

The paradox is impossible to ignore. If capitalism is fundamentally exploitative, if wealth itself is evidence of injustice, and if privilege is inherently immoral, then why do so many wealthy progressives continue to enjoy every benefit of the system they condemn? Why do they advocate redistribution while rarely redistributing their own wealth voluntarily? Why do they champion collectivism while maintaining lifestyles that would be impossible under the systems they romanticize?

As he concludes, for modern wealthy progressives this is not a movement, it is just a luxury belief.

“What many of them seek is not equality at all. What they seek is moral absolution and social status disguised as compassion.

The whole thing is worthy of your time: Aristocrats of Redistribution.

Memorial Day 2026

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." — Winston Churchill

As we do on this day each year, we pause to remember the men and women who died fighting for our freedom.

We stand by humbly, gratefully, silently, to honor their sacrifice.

We remember…

We mourn for those lost…

And we mourn for those they’ve left behind…

As we reflect once again on the the steep price of freedom.

By all means, enjoy your picnics, parades and celebrations today – it is a holiday after all. But do pause to remember and honor all the brave Americans across the centuries who have sacrificed their lives in the fight against tyrants, tyrannies and terrorists; the enemies of freedom who will always be amongst us and will always be a threat to liberty. God willing, America will always be there to vanquish freedom’s adversaries. 

Wishing all a tranquil, thoughtful and reflective Memorial Day.

Originally posted Memorial Day 2018

Incompetency ‘R Us

This about sums it up:

Don’t mind me,  it’s just been one of those weeks when everything you try to do is either unavailable, broken, flawed or otherwise bungled by someone’s incompetence. And  while “Tom” from Mumbai sympathizes he’s incapable of helping in any meaningful way. It probably is unrelated to schools turning out students who can’t read, do basic math or write: idiots in other words. I’d like to reconsider my position on AI, maybe it isn’t such a bad idea after all.

And how can it possibly be Caturday again already?

Because Life Doesn’t Come With a Guidebook, It Comes With A Mom

THis has become my perennial Mother’s Day Post.

Can you believe it…it’s Mother’s Day already! Even during stressful times like these the years  tick by at an alarming rate. I can’t say for sure whether the universe is expanding but I can verify the fact that time is accelerating. My Mom has been gone for 17 years already this month, which doesn’t even seem possible, sometimes it seems she was here just yesterday. Mom: ever a part of you, always with you, even when she isn’t.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom.

To celebrate mothers is to celebrate life itself. Like virtually everything else in life there are exceptions but for the most part mothers are indeed exceptional in their unconditional love and devotion. At a Mother’s Day gathering in 2017 Melania Trump explained it this way:

“Mother is a title that claims your heart and changes your life forever. In fact, it has been said that having a child means allowing your heart to walk around outside of your body.”

So if you’re lucky enough to still have your mom around, grab some flowers and thank the woman who let her heart walk around independent of her body.

Give her a big hug (assuming neither of you have the Wuhan cooties of course). If she’s no longer with you, honor her memory by recalling the good times you had when you were both impossibly young.

For time is indeed a most fleeting commodity.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there – and to everyone else who has, or ever had, a Mom.

Moms:because life doesn’t come with guidebook, it comes with a mom

Proof That Creativity Hasn’t Been Completely Killed

Is anyone else war weary and politically pooped? I doubt I’m alone so here’s an entertaining diversion that may keep you smiling till Mother’s Day.

It’s 11 years old so the video quality isn’t what it is today but it’s still hilarious, still more creative than anything Hollywood has put out in the same timeframe. Proof that low tech still has a place in our lives.

Their mothers must be proud.

Wishes for a good week to all.