Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 47
March 13, 2019
Perfect lemon pie for Pi Day
Did you know that PIE, spelled backward, is March 14? From Southern Living, this easy lemon meringue circular dessert is perfect for tomorrow’s celebrations.
March 6, 2019
Let them eat solar
The reason we don’t have an alternative to fossil fuels is that we’ve put government bureaucrats in charge of finding it.
February 25, 2019
Senator Kamala Harris calls for slavery reparations
California Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to support reparations to descendants of former slaves, and to descendants of Union soldiers who died freeing them.
February 20, 2019
Peer to peer email from 1980
A fascinating vision of the convergence of e-mail and text messaging from 1980.
February 13, 2019
House on Crane Hill at North Texas 2019
I’ll be running House on Crane Hill on Thursday evening at North Texas this year. If you enjoy the old Haunting-inspired books and movies, come and join us!
February 6, 2019
The new barbarism: A return to feudalism
The progressive left seems to have no concept of what civilization is, and of what undergirds civilization.
January 30, 2019
Business prospect incentives discourage innovation
Complicating the law and raising taxes, then lowering them for businesses that know how to lobby local or state governments, is not a recipe for encouraging innovation. It is a recipe for killing it.
January 28, 2019
Nathan Phillips, character assassin
“That is not some disagreement about who went up to whom, or whether the wall was mentioned by the boys, or what caps some of them wore. This is an extremely defamatory statement by a political agitator, designed to shape perceptions that the boys were vicious racists with a killer instinct. The language is purposefully inflammatory and of the harshest variety.
“It is a lie, and unless Phillips is clinically insane and out of touch with reality (something I don’t believe is the case), it is a knowing and purposeful lie about a bunch of teenagers who were minding their own business. It is a lie so egregious, so foul, that I really lack words to describe the depth and depravity of that lie.” “Is this a banana, or is this an apple? Are they even pretending to care about the truth any longer?”
“It is a lie, and unless Phillips is clinically insane and out of touch with reality (something I don’t believe is the case), it is a knowing and purposeful lie about a bunch of teenagers who were minding their own business. It is a lie so egregious, so foul, that I really lack words to describe the depth and depravity of that lie.” “Is this a banana, or is this an apple? Are they even pretending to care about the truth any longer?”
January 23, 2019
Failure theater in the Syrian war
Just when I think I’m starting to understand the Democrats’ new policies post-2016, they come out of left field and support war in Syria. Are they flip-flopping because of failure theater or because they hate Trump?
January 16, 2019
Why don’t taxes go down when population goes up?
The left says that government can better take advantage of economies of scale. So why don’t they lower taxes when population rises?
