Monthly Archives: January 2025

Wherever You Go, There You Are

January 31, 2025 – 1:17 am

As I write I am sitting on the upper deck of a small cruise-ship in Ha Long Bay, near Hai Phong, Vietnam. We came to the Far East to visit our daughter and her family in Hong Kong, and decided to take a little side-trip to Vietnam. We spent a couple of nights in Hanoi, […]

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Dis-Oriented

January 26, 2025 – 1:31 am

I’ll confess that’s it’s strange to be in Hong Kong while so much is going on back home (all of it happening each day in what is, for us, the middle of the night). It’s delightful to be able to spend so much time with our daughter and our three wee grandsons (and our son-in-law, […]

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The Boot Is Lifted!

January 20, 2025 – 10:12 pm

We’re in Hong Kong now, thirteen hours ahead of Eastern time, so I was only able to check in on events a little after the fact — but wow, what a day for America. Pardons for J6 political prisoners! Sealing the border! Withdrawals from the Paris boondoggle, and from the WHO! Federal hiring freeze! An […]

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Service Notice

January 16, 2025 – 1:30 pm

The lovely Nina and I are on our way to Hong Kong to visit our daughter, her husband, and our grandsons. I’ll be back on once we get settled (been a bit slow lately, I realize; we’ve been swamped getting ready). Big day on Monday. Some better times ahead for America and the West, I […]

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Putting The “CA” In “Catastrophe”

January 10, 2025 – 11:47 am

I haven’t had much time for writing in these last few days, but, like the rest of you I’m sure, my attention has been riveted to the conflagrations that have utterly destroyed parts of Los Angeles, and are still, in many places, raging uncontrolled. I won’t make a detailed repetition here of the accusations being […]

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Peter Yarrow, 1938-2025

January 7, 2025 – 2:21 pm

I note with sadness the death of Peter Yarrow, who was known to everyone of my generation as part of the enormously popular folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. I mixed two Peter, Paul and Mary albums — Flowers and Stones (1986), and No Easy Walk To Freedom (1990) — and I remember Peter as […]

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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2025 – 11:11 am

To all of you. Thanks as always for visiting and commenting. (The blog’s 20 years old now!) 2025 is going to be an interesting year. Some change is on the way, I think.

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