. . .
K “I am regularly surprised and occasionally shocked at where I am personally and politically and legally and economically today.”
J “Me too.”
K “You too. I am plagued by self-induced self-doubt every day.”
J “I am not surprised at where I am. The consequences of unrelenting critical thinking.”
. . .
K “For an undertaking that did not have an outline or a deadline or a line or a plan or a direction or a trajectory, I am surprised and shocked to see where it has veered and ventured.”
J “It has been fun. The path sure has been rocky in the last five years.”
. . .
J “The great fork . . . the great divide . . . the great chasm . . . was Covid. Life in B.C. and in A.C. Before Covid and After Covid.”
K “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches. That strategy is working frighteningly well.”
. . .
K “My emerging conviction in the last five years is that the American Experiment is failing and is continuing to fail and will surely fail. The bigger and far more intriguing question is what will become of the experiment.”
J “We still agree on many things. Are two countries in our future?”
. . .
J “Boycott Red America.”
K “Thoughtfully Boycott Blue America.”
. . .
[See “The Revolution of 2024” by Jeffrey A. Tucker in the “Brownstone Institute” dated November 16, 2024.]
[See the very first piece that kicked off the journey at Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005) almost a score years ago. These weekly essays in the vein of Montaigne assaying the ideas of the time were available at “www.e-ssay.org”. Note that K’s weltanschauung has evolved over the two decades. J remains resolute and undaunted. See the summary of the prior nineteen years of e-ssays and e-commentaries at e-commentary: Approaching A Score Years Of Fun And A Mille Posts! (December 31, 2023 / January 1, 2024).]
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Almost 20 years and counting!
Boycott Red America
Boycott Blue America
Still a lot of fun
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Post Number 1000! And Still Having Fun! Oh, And Happy Post Number 1000! (November 18, 2024)
. . .
K “I am regularly surprised and occasionally shocked at where I am personally and politically and legally and economically today.”
J “Me too.”
K “You too. I am plagued by self-induced self-doubt every day.”
J “I am not surprised at where I am. The consequences of unrelenting critical thinking.”
. . .
K “For an undertaking that did not have an outline or a deadline or a line or a plan or a direction or a trajectory, I am surprised and shocked to see where it has veered and ventured.”
J “It has been fun. The path sure has been rocky in the last five years.”
. . .
J “The great fork . . . the great divide . . . the great chasm . . . was Covid. Life in B.C. and in A.C. Before Covid and After Covid.”
K “Those in power are keen to get the folks with the pitch forks to turn on the folks with the burning torches. That strategy is working frighteningly well.”
. . .
K “My emerging conviction in the last five years is that the American Experiment is failing and is continuing to fail and will surely fail. The bigger and far more intriguing question is what will become of the experiment.”
J “We still agree on many things. Are two countries in our future?”
. . .
J “Boycott Red America.”
K “Thoughtfully Boycott Blue America.”
. . .
[See “The Revolution of 2024” by Jeffrey A. Tucker in the “Brownstone Institute” dated November 16, 2024.]
[See the very first piece that kicked off the journey at Boycott Red America (January 3, 2005) almost a score years ago. These weekly essays in the vein of Montaigne assaying the ideas of the time were available at “www.e-ssay.org”. Note that K’s weltanschauung has evolved over the two decades. J remains resolute and undaunted. See the summary of the prior nineteen years of e-ssays and e-commentaries at e-commentary: Approaching A Score Years Of Fun And A Mille Posts! (December 31, 2023 / January 1, 2024).]
[See the e-commentary at Friendships And Families Asunder. Brother v. Brother. And Big Brother Always Looming (November 8, 2021), Civil War II. Coming To A Country And City Near You (November 26, 2018), The Great National Dissolution: Resolving The Great Civil War (April 18, 2011), World War E / World War III Is 1 [9?] Year[s] Old This Week. Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 20, 2023), The United States Of Polarization (November 1, 2021), On Friendship Today: Flat, Fried, Frayed, Frazzled, Frozen, Fractured, Fissured, Fatigued, Finished? Oh, And Happy Thanksgiving! (November 20, 2023), Truckers; Convoys; Politics; Race; Class; Religion; The American Effete And The PMC. Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 14, 2022), Vaccine Vacillation And Vicissitudes (December 14, 2020), The Vaccine: The Shot Felt Round The World (November 23, 2020), What’s In A Name? Medical School Monikers In 2032 (January 17, 2022), Red State Medicine v. Blue State Medicine; Red Continent Medicine v. Blue Continent Medicine; WCH v. WHO (October 25, 2021), Narratives Competing (August 2, 2021) and The Populace Is “Dis-ed”: Discombobulated, Disequilibrated, Disquieted, Disconcerted, Dislocated, Disillusioned, Disappointed, Dismayed, Dissed And Dis-ed (February 8, 2021).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
1000 posts and counting!
Almost 20 years and counting!
Boycott Red America
Boycott Blue America
Still a lot of fun
And a nod to our eighty-six (86) free subscribers
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