The country we are living in at present seems confusing, as if an alternate nation-state has subsumed the previously normal one. But the openly chaotic world was always this way. The cover which kept us safe has merely been...
Monthly Archive:: January 2015
COMEDY AND RACISM IN BERKELEY
Stand-up comic W. Kamau Bell has been all over the internet, accusing The Elmwood Eatery, a local Bay Area restaurant, of racism. The Berkeley restaurant (yes, all of this drama occurred in that hot – bed of tolerance, Berkeley)...
CHILI CON QUESO
One of my fondest food memories is my mother preparing this spicy, cheesy dip for a party. I couldn’t get enough. She ended up making a second pot just for my sisters and I, lest we gobble up all...
SAUTEED HALIBUT FILLET
Thinking about: Sautéed Halibut Fillet When choosing any Fish portions, be sure to check the odor; fish should not smell fishy, it should smell like the ocean. Preheat oven to 400°f (takes about 10-15 minutes)...
NONSENSE REGULATION
As a boy growing up in Denver, I recall that one of the benefits of big winter storms was the opportunity for me to put a few extra dollars in my pocket by shoveling snow for my neighbors. I...
CONSERVATIVE WASTELAND
No, this isn’t the proclamation of some self-loathing conservative in the pangs of political self-doubt and disillusionment. Quite the contrary. If anything I’m more conservative than I was when I left the Democratic Party in 1996 as a liberal....
MODERN AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
My friend Tom Krannawitter turned me on to this criticism of the late Harry V. Jaffa, former Professor Emeritus at Claremont Mckenna College and Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute. I did not know Professor Jaffa. I met him...
THE SEVEN “R’s”
I lured my sons into the garage to help me look for some long lost document with the promise of buried treasure. We never found the document I was looking for. However, while sorting through some of my father’s...