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  • Time to Call It Quits: Some Thoughts on the Pandemic and the Future

    Time to Call It Quits: Some Thoughts on the Pandemic and the Future0

    Joy. Pure unadulterated joy. This is what I felt on the first of June when I stepped into my favorite coffee shop here in Front Royal, Virginia and found all of the employees except one without face coverings. Gone were the bandanas and surgical masks, and for the first time in a year I could

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  • The Curse of the iPhone

    The Curse of the iPhone0

    Young people have never been famous for their political acumen. Recall the Children’s Crusade of 1212 when thousands of unarmed youngsters attempted to march to the Holy Land to convert Muslims with persuasion and divine inspiration. Nevertheless, the current generation exhibits a level of political naiveite that would certify the children of the 1212 disaster as rocket

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  • A Trip Back to the Fifties

    A Trip Back to the Fifties0

    Please hop into my time machine, and I’ll give you a short tour of Boonville, North Carolina in the summer of 1959, before bringing you back to the present day. Strolling around this small hamlet of 600, note the town’s most historic building, the old brick bank founded long ago by Mr. Shore. Take in

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  • American Culture: Shaken, Not Stirred, By Big Tech

    American Culture: Shaken, Not Stirred, By Big Tech0

    Big Tech continues to infiltrate American media production as its woke corporate claws sink deeper into Hollywood, infecting beloved media franchises as they go. Amazon’s acquisition of MGM Holdings Inc. is the latest move in this process and is a change that will accelerate the decline of American culture. Surprisingly, Amazon’s looming presence poses a threat

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  • Leaving Love Scenes to the Imagination

    Leaving Love Scenes to the Imagination1

    In the movie Casablanca, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) demands her brokenhearted former love, Rick (Humphrey Bogart), hand over some letters of transit that will allow her husband Victor to escape the Nazis. When he refuses, she pulls a gun and repeats her request, but Rick tells her, “Go ahead and shoot. You’ll be doing me a favor.”

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  • Let Trans Athletes Have Their Own Sport Competitions

    Let Trans Athletes Have Their Own Sport Competitions1

    Nowadays, feminists are all up in arms about the insertion of males who declare themselves to be females into women’s sports. This is not an unreasonable concern for, if encouraged, or even allowed, transsexuals will sound the death knell of female athletic competitions. The latest episode of transgender incursions in women’s sports concerns New Zealand

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