“Inking”by daimoneklund is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Justice Douglas starts An Almanac of Liberty where our nation began – the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The process of adoption began on April 12, 1776 when North Carolina instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to obtain independence. A committee was eventually created to …
Justice Douglas focused on the question of faith for July 2. In An Almanac of Liberty, he wrote: The question of faith goes to the very heart of the problem of survival. Faith in men of opposing political creeds — faith in people who worship God from a temple too strange for us to call …
When I met Brian, he really enjoyed the show Game of Thrones. And he wanted to get me to like it. I failed spectacularly. I would ask too many questions. Nothing made any sense. And I did not like the characters that they told me to like. In fact, I compared it to All My Children as we finished …
I feel like I have abandoned this blog again as I do many times in the course of its existence. When it’s a one man show where I get to write about things I like or that I have researched, it doesn’t really matter. This is not something I make a penny on and in …
Last year, we went to the Cinemark for an entire week. We watched several great movies (Phantom Thread, Get Out), several good movies (Lady Bird, Dunkirk), and several movies I have forgotten. In 2019, the Best Picture nominees (outside of Roma, which the movie theaters decided to not re-show in a stand against Netflix) revolved around several similar …
On February 19, 2019, the Supreme Court released a denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari. Katherine McKee filed a defamation suit against Bill Cosby and his attorneys after the released a letter she alleged was defamatory. McKee had publicly accused Cosby of raping her and in response, she alleged his attorneys leaded …
“A Christian missionary went from England to India…to save the heathen from their blindness and bring them into the light. One day, in the streets of a crowded city, he saw a beggar, seated on the pavement, his body covered with sores. He felt moved by the man’s misery and went to speak to him. …
Once upon a time, I would buy Bob Woodward’s book when it came out. I would read at least three political tomes each year. I lived and breathed politics. And honestly, one of the main purposes of this blog has been to rediscover my love of democracy and to dig into some of my beliefs …
In this second week, I read 14 comics from December. As I slowly make my way to catch up to the week at hand, I enjoyed most of these books. As a reminder, these are based on what I buy and what hit me that week. My favorite book of the week: Black Badge #5 …