The SMM Top 10: 2011-2019
Just for fun, I thought I’d follow up the top 15 of 2019 with the top 11 to date. I …
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2019: The Top 15 SMM Articles
Writing a blog is an exercise in joy and frustration. I began this scruffy little blog when the late Bob …
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Director: JJ Abrams Screenplay: Chris Terrio, JJ Abrams, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow
Christmas Blessings, 2019
This is truly a season of blessings. My greatest blessing is Mrs. Manor–we celebrated our 41st anniversary Dec. 2; they’ve been the …
The Gibson’s Case: Oberlin Lies and Smears–Still
As regular readers know, I’ve been following the Gibson’s/Oberlin College case. In my last article on 09-20-19, I wrote:
New York City: Crime Pays
How do you get criminals to show up for their court dates? You know, the criminals that were released on …
The Virgin Mary: A #Me Too Victim?
NOTE: Considering it’s December already, I thought it useful to reprise this somewhat updated article from December of 2018. We …
Thanksgiving Thoughts, 2019
Every Thanksgiving, I take the time to pause and reflect on my life. So much of what I write here …
Michelle Obama: White Flight–UPDATED
In Michelle Obama: Battlespace Preparation, I wrote of the possibility—probability?—the Democrats, painfully aware that none of their current candidates could …
WaPo: Terrorist Butcher Fake News
Who was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? He was among the most bloodthirsty Islamist terrorist demons of the modern age. Leader/ruler/Caliph of …
Marveling At Art
And just when we were beginning to think there was a paucity of examples of the arrogance of the self-imagined …
Music Fails
For the ancients, and even into the medieval period and beyond, one was not considered truly educated without studying music. …
Joshua Harris: False Prophet?
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me.” John 14:6
The Gibson’s Case: Real Reality
I often ask my students what happens when they are presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, perhaps …
