Month: November 2018

The Crocodile Tears of Neoconservatives

Reading Max Boot’s column (The GOP is Now the Party of Neo-Confederates) this morning in the Washington Post gave me occasion to revisit a piece I wrote on May 7, 2016 called The Resurrection of the Paleoconservatives....

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This is what BREXIT IS BREXIT means

The Brexit deal has been agreed by the European Council in the time it would take to eat a good breakfast brunch in a Brussels brasserie. No point in wasting a whole day on this sort of thing. It’s happening for the optics...

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Baseball Shouldn’t Support Fascists

I did not know that there was such a thing as The Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball PAC. It’s a horrible idea. Politicizing baseball is foolish, and it’s especially dumb to donate to individual...

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SPP Vol.693 & Old Time Froggy Botttom Cafe

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the painting of the old double-turreted Victorian. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 8×10 inch...

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