Jeffrey K. Walker's Blog, page 10
March 8, 2020
Sublimity of Stooges
[Kay-Kay and I spent the last week in Corornafornia… errr, Northern California… with Goober and Goldie (my grandkids) and Their Staff (my daughter Peanut and her husband JD). As a […]
March 1, 2020
Taking Account
As is regularly the case in our household, Kay-Kay is much better than I am at remembering names. She’s also much better at remembering birthdays, my having completely forgotten hers […]
February 23, 2020
Calling the Wild
Because the world needs Another Movie Remake, Hollywood continuing to be bereft of Very Many New Ideas, The Call of the Wild (2020 version) opened in theaters everywhere a couple of days ago. This is the fifth time the beloved 1903 Jack London book has been reduced to film. Or digits. — The 1923 silent version. […]
February 16, 2020
Assumed Conservative
I get it. Everyone seems to assume I’m a conservative. I’m like a cookie-cutter shape from the conservative demographic. Aging Boomer? Check. White Guy? Check. Born and raised in small-town Midwest? Check. Old Air Force officer? Big check. Here’s the thing. I’ve voted for exactly one Republican in my entire life. And she was my […]
February 9, 2020
WIZZ on the Radio Every Morning
[I have a zillion balls in the air this week, so I’m reposting an old blog. WIth the media in overdrive the last few weeks, what with the Impeachment Trial and the Iowa Caucuses, I thought it a good time to remember how important the realest of Real News–local papers and AM radio stations–used to […]
February 2, 2020
The Great War is Having an American Moment
The Second World War is definitely America’s Favorite War. Although somewhat delayed in our entry—we had to be poked in the eye with a very sharp stick by the Japanese—we were all in and went big. The First World War? Not so much. We were VERY late to that fight. Approximately two-thirds of the conflict […]
January 26, 2020
OK Boomers
As if we need any more proof that Americans walk around in constant search of reasons to show themselves aggrieved on any form of social media. All those “scare quotes” and ANGRY SHOUT CAPITALS and strings of undecipherable face emojis —
January 19, 2020
The Day America Went Dry
Exactly 100 years ago this last Friday, America’s Greatest Social Engineering Experiment Ever went into effect. I’m not talking about Social Security or Medicare or slicing the bread before putting it in the bag. I’m talking about Prohibition. Let’s start with the law. Because I’m a lawyer and stuff. One of the earliest collateral injuries […]
January 12, 2020
Your Write Turn: They Might Love You in Canada
This is the sixth installment in my periodic “Your Write Turn” series of blog posts. I’ve talked about choosing writing as a second career, assessing what personal skills and resources you bring to your writing, hauling yourself over the hump of self-doubt, getting your manuscript from draft to done, and choosing the traditional or self-publishing […]
January 5, 2020
No, I Can’t Hear You Now
[Happy New Year! Buon capodano! Bonne année! Happy Hogmanay! Gleðilegt nýtt ár! That last one is Icelandic, just because nothing says Happy New Year better than random accent marks!!! I’m on the Left Coast hanging out with my grandkids and generally being Bad Grandpa, so this is a rerun of a post I did a […]
