After eight days and one significant external event, I am close to establishing a stable relationship with my CPAP. That one external...

First trip was in 1964; last trip to Florence was about 1990. Time to consider going back, with perhaps a day trip to Rome -- 1.5 hours...

Maggie's Farm provides a good round up of problems with the eco-friendly thesis...that does not appear tom wrk at all as claimed or...

The stories of my life. No, not One Direction -- although I do like the song -- but rather the start of my attempt to compile the people...

Universities have abandoned their mission of the development and dissemination of knowledge in favor of a woke, DIE mission, wholly...

Now that I am fully retired, meaning that I have employment (income) and have Medicare A, B and D plus Social Security, it gives me joy...

February 28, 2023. These photos came from two or three different games, probably courtesy of Karen Madsen. In the lower right I see Marty...

In a conversation with a young missionary yesterday, I had the opportunity to describe the arc of my career and the result was a bit...

This is a true sign of old age, where my health is effected by a machine. After being in denial for years, I finally succumbed, through a...

This summer in Harrison, in Hughes Hall in Hinman College, 1974, and M*A*S*H football in 1972.

After fifty years in higher education, the "ideal" image of the college experience and education remains pretty firmly -- if fading -- in...

Source: Chasing Utopian Energy: How I Wasted 20 Years of My Life I started to realize that I had accepted as true certain claims about...

Drone shots courtesy of Dale Pynenberg, June 2022.

February 28, 2023. Many of my blog posts have concerned college, its cost, its value, its changes, its shortcomings. Here are eleven of...

Family ancestry week end in Franklin, meeting second cousins, traveling the backwater of western Pennsylvania, and learning that my...

February 2023. Via Peter Boghossian.

Flying to Cleveland Friday to drive to Franklin with Al, to join up with six brothers and sisters for a bit of a drive down memory lane...

Time for one more politically incorrect, unawake dive into the world of income inequality. Jordan Peterson, Glenn Loury and Douglas...

A critique of more 'climate change' nonsense.

Some Tips On How To Spot "Disinformation" May 10, 2022/Francis Menton On April 27, 2022, our Department of Homeland Security revealed (at...