Collecting My Thoughts

 In the United States, everything that is bad is blamed on racism.  Especially health issues.  And racism of course, is blamed on the histor...

 "Health officials have announced a new coronavirus mutation that has been discovered in the UK, which seems to be spreading quickly in...

Sir Roger Scruton was an English writer and philosopher who passed away this last week on January 12. He was 75, born in 1944.  He has publ...

"I am resolved to put no limit to my trust, and to spread it out to everything. It seems to me that I ought to make use of Our Lord as ...

Downton Abbey was a delight as a TV series, and I hope to see the movie. But have you ever wondered why the Grantham family were living in a...

“Saying you believe in science rather than religion is like saying you believe in screwdrivers rather than democracy. Science is a tool and ...

  We attend the traditional service at our Lutheran church (NALC) in Upper Arlington, Ohio.  There are two other types of services—one I c...

I have a morning routine of about 30 minutes which includes some reading and journaling, and before we went to the Lake I’d checked out of t...

Did you ever wonder why the Crawley family of the fictional Downton Abbey TV series lived in an abbey?  “There are many old country houses i...

There is no right to abort (aka kill) another human being in our Constitution or Bill of Rights. SCOTUS "found" that right in th...

This film is obviously biased--the producers want Britain to leave the EU.  But what is interesting is the bureaucracy it describes, created...

                              Along with millions of other Americans, tonight I'll be staying awake to watch PBS' Downton Abbey, n...

Today I was reading an article about how King Henry VIII confiscated (stole) all the monasteries' land and wealth in England, making ab...

To find inspiration for my morning bike (stationary) ride, I type in to Google, Choral sacred YouTube, so this morning I found AGNUS DEI...

“Tim Hunt is a serious scientist. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research. In 2006 he was awarded the Roya...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArErdaiOW0 I consider him the best writer of the 20th century.  One volume of his history of the 20th c...

Our book club selection for December is no easier than The Book Thief of last month—another WWII story, although this one isn’t fiction. T...

You’re nothing but a yeasty, milk-livered maggot pie; Oh yeah? Take that, you paunchy, rump-fed pignut.

Today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773, a band of patriots called the "Sons of Liberty," disguise...

Children are executed in a British global warming terror commercial which has to be the most evil, most cause-defeating ad ever created. Af...