The Trump Tomb
thoughts on the Trump Tomb!
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A Lousy Liberal
This is a portrait of John Locke, the man who invented Liberalism. Are you thinking of tossing a dart at him? Hold on a minute.
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Gratitude
US World War I veteran Joseph Ambrose (1896–1988) attends the dedication parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, wearing his original Brodie helmet and doughboy uniform and holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.
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All Politics Is Local
Calvin Coolidge said the business of America is Business. Nowadays it seems the business of America is Politics.
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Anchor Outs
The Gloomer reflects on the Anchor Outs in light of a fresh documentary
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The Lie Box
wherein the Gloomer rambles on about writers and why he puts out the seemingly wasted effort to be one.
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Billionaires in the age of Social Media
We’ve come a long way from the bad old days of Joseph Goebbels, the man who invented modern public hate. Or have we? The Gloomer reflects on how the worm has turned in these hard times.
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Rough Sleepers
Rough Sleepers are Homeless People in London. I need to grudgingly admit this: the British use the English Language lots more creatively than we do. Leave it to them to come up with a term that catches the feeling of a hard night on a bench or a night spent in a dome tent pitched on the sidewalk. What we call being out on the street We say Homeless. That’s a term Sociologists use. Unhoused is the latest modification. A…
A Boomer Halloween
Okay, so it’s Halloween. Am I excited? I’m not getting up for this holiday. The world is going crazy all around me. I’m just happy to be hiding out here on the docks…
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Rain on the horizon
I come awake this morning to bad news. The rain is coming. Next week possibly. Scruffy’s deck sealing project has lingered for months, while I dick around, making a blog, writing a novel, wasting my time with projects that wont help me keep the rain away. Forget the nuclear waste. I need to save the wood on this boat. But first order of business. I gotta feed the little bastard. Ivan the Terrible. Maybe he could use a burger. Maybe…