History, Plain Speaking, Reality Check

People! Build Nuclear Bomb Shelters! Or Else!

Well, OK, it's a headline from sixty-two years ago today, but who's counting? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IpdcFKHOrZU?feature=share Not worried. I've already said, here and elsewhere, that in the event of cataclysm, disaster, nuclear catastrophe, holocaust, or anything else, I'm heading for the chicken coop. Most resilient and steadfast structure on the property.  I know.  I built it. Water--check.… Continue reading People! Build Nuclear Bomb Shelters! Or Else!

common sense, Entertainment, Music, Poetry, Reality Check, Womanly Feminism

Do I Really Want “A Tiger by the Tail?” Not At My Age 🙄

LOL.  Just listening to my boyfriend Willie Nelson's latest-but-one album (I Don't Know a Thing About Love)  which is a compilation of the works of country music songwriter/genius Harlan Howard. It includes such gems as Streets of Baltimore (otherwhere recorded by Gram Parsons and featuring a very young Emmylou Harris): https://youtu.be/VjAMoU6es-8 and She Called Me… Continue reading Do I Really Want “A Tiger by the Tail?” Not At My Age 🙄

Culture, Feminism, Movies and TV, Plain Speaking, Reality Check, Social Media

Proudly Declaring My Preferred Pronoun Since 2010!

Yesterday (August 9, 2023) was the thirteenth anniversary of the day I discovered ricochet.com.  I've written before about how much that site, and its members, have meant to me over the years, but here's the post from yesterday, the date itself.  I urge those of you with a Centerish and Rightwards political bent to take… Continue reading Proudly Declaring My Preferred Pronoun Since 2010!

Alternate History, common sense, History, Plain Speaking, Politics, Reality Check, Royalty

Dear Daily Telegraph….

....frankly, I can't be arsed to look around your website any longer to try to find the link that allows me to send you a question, or to request a reason why my recent comment on your article titled "Prince William praises 'selfless' officer killed defending US Capitol." was removed from your site.  (Something one… Continue reading Dear Daily Telegraph….