I promise! I really had very nearly talked myself out of writing this missive. Really, I had... but then saw a post on my facebook feed, so obviously untrue - and easily refuted, once again proving the premise of my screed and – BAM! Here it is!
08 November 2015
07 November 2015
So Sorry To Have Offended You!
Editor's Note:Here's a new one – well, new to me at least... I'm sitting in my office, working on my materials for a meeting Monday night when someone, calling from a blocked number and speaking in some variant of English that I had encountered before, calls to tell me that I need to "provide myself with any pen and handy paper to take down a number."
Today's post is part teachable moment, part "apology" to the smarmy telemarketer that I believe I might have offended a moment ago...
Enjoy.
01 November 2015
Greetings From Frost Lake
Winter is on its way!
Don Bergquist - November 01, 2015 - Lakewood, Colorado, USA
30 October 2015
The Power Of The Purse
Is it just me or are ALL the stories on the “Liberal Media” missing one of the main points of the story of last night’s deal approving a raise to the budget ceiling? All the stories that I have heard and read talk about how “the President won” or how the Congress averted a fiscal catastrophe by passing a deal that raises the debt ceiling; all of them seem to hold the Congress as a blameless bystander in the whole sordid affair.
19 October 2015
Panem et Circenses
“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81
18 October 2015
Idiotocracy
Why does the political right in the US insist on running wholly unqualified candidates!?
09 October 2015
That Ain’t Right
"That Ain't Right"
by
Thomas "Fats" Waller
"Baby, baby; What is the matter with you?
Ah! Baby, baby; What is the matter with you?
You got the world in a jug
And you've got nothin' to do"
05 October 2015
01 October 2015
Greetings From Frost Lake
Going, Going, Gone!
Don Bergquist - October 01, 2015 - Lakewood, Colorado, USA
01 September 2015
16 August 2015
Real or Reality Show?
trumpery
[truhm-puh-ree]
noun, plural: trumperies.1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle: "His usual conversation is pure trumpery."
3. Archaic. worthless finery.
adjective,4. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.
Etymology
Late Middle English/Middle French1425-1475; late Middle English trompery deceit < Middle French tromperie, equivalent to tromp (er) to deceive + -erie -ery
Source: Dictonary.com
15 August 2015
01 August 2015
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