Monthly Archives: November 2024

The first half of my current trip around the sun–my birthday is at the beginning of June–has featured too much of the latter. The main event was choosing ACDF surgery—which scared the you-know-what out of me—over a scarier alternative. (I was in danger of becoming paralyzed due to the instability in my cervical spine.)

The scars, physical and emotional, are slowly starting to fade, but there is still much rehab of all kinds for me to do.

This period of time hasn’t been entirely without motivation by love, thankfully. I look forward to sharing a passion project with you soon. And, with a lot of work and a little luck, I look forward to many more such projects.

So yes, I have made the journey from mostly fearful to mostly thankful. And I see the sun coming out right now, so let me go grab a bit. (It’s been an essential component of my recovery.)

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

35 years ago yesterday the Berlin Wall fell. Here’s a picture of a piece I’ve kept nearby for decades, given to me by a friend at UCLA who had removed it himself just after the wall came down.

This, plus hearing the news about the anti-“misinformation” bill pending in Australia, made me think of one perspective on Tuesday’s decisive election results in the U.S.: a majority of the American people refused to elect two politicians who had stated explicitly their intention to build a Berlin Wall preventing the free flow of information.

It can’t happen here–not quite yet anyway!

The NYT can no longer deny that they and their cronies in the MSM and Washington, DC have failed to recreate America according to their preferred narratives.

But that doesn’t mean *our* sense of the nation has changed. It’s their sense of their power to mold our beliefs that has changed.

So, they conclude, if they’re failing to mold our beliefs—then Trump must be doing it!

They simply cannot fathom that we as individuals can think for ourselves, that we can demand the right to do so, and that this is why so many of us voted for Trump.

Their loss. (Pun intended.)