Month: February 2018

You’ll see why I am posting the following bit of history in a minute. Just take your time and read through this carefully: Foreign Service Officer John S. Service is dismissed from the Department of State following a...

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting a new painting.  It is a scene in Cape May, New Jersey.  The photo that I’m using is seen directly below.  I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints...

The trolling gestapo prevents me posting comments in Martin Longman’s stories … so I’ll  stick to the right side and diaries … The hiring of their new right-wing columnists may fit their new business...

The Daily Mail gets the credit for breaking the Rob Porter domestic abuse story.  However and lagging behind to an unknown degree, The Intercept was on it  as well. What’s unique that catapulted this story to the...

I have a fairly unconventional view of the New York Times for a progressive, and it might be at least partly because I stopped being a fan of the Clintons somewhere around 1995 and became ideologically and by disposition...