2018 – Len@Large

Holiday Humbug?

April 23, 2020December 10, 2018 by L@L

[with addendums ]

‘Tis the season! It starts earlier each year as the shopping season with its commercial, sales, and music now starting to appear in July. In few years, all pretense of traditional Judeo-Christian religious values will have been successfully submerged, subsumed, and re-emerged as one giant new secular-mercantile season that coincides perfectly with the most important religion of them all: The advent of the new football season (eliminating Advent itself), much to the glee of the lefty social(ist) engineers.

And it shall be called—sing it with me:
Fa-La-La-La-Laa-pa-loo-ooo-za! (!די לאַ-לאַ-לאַ-לאַ-פּאַלואָזאַ)

[Ed. postscript added 12/26/18: Take a look at this.]

Many things are indicative of the season besides those mentioned above, including mass solicitations by all manner of allegedly charitable enterprises. I donate to a select group at various times during the year and often come to regret doing so, mostly because of what happens during this time of year. Some of you will nod along with what follows.

Food for thought

January 8, 2019October 6, 2018 by L@L

So I’m in one of the local foodmarts and I see some items on the shelves. First was this: And then I noticed this simple list of ingredients for a particular cookie-type product: [Ed. note: tocopherols are naturally occurring compounds found in many foods that collectively are better know as Vitamin E, often used as … Read more

Chirp: The (im)migration mess in perspective

April 20, 2019June 24, 2018 by L@L

The migration situation presently being played out at the southern border is being demagogued by all manner of out-of-control and irresponsible media/social media as well as the political class, in large part because most are pretending this is something new rather than confront the genesis and historical operational policy of the present law. As usual, … Read more

Sunday morning

September 2, 2019June 10, 2018 by L@L

[edits and an addendum added 9/2/19] I am doing my daily morning reading compiled or presented by various sources as I am mulling over the state of the world, America, and me. I have been sorting out and synthesizing thoughts percolating for a few weeks in the multi-track recorder of my mind that will need … Read more

Frivolity and Idle Amusement

July 4, 2020May 20, 2018 by L@L

In the course of my meanderings around the web-o-sphere this rainy weekend, as I successfully avoided any-and-all coverage of the royal wedding, I came across a piece from Vanity Fair. I don’t think of the magazine, given its title, as a source of anything authoritative, although others seem to think it might offer insight into current culture and fashion. I was perplexed as to why this article was even published until a little research showed it fit into the 24/7/365 Trump derangement syndrome of its author, made obvious by the title, “Bill Gates: Trump is even dumber than you thought,” categorized under the webzine’s business section, with the very professional subsection/pre-title of “Dear God.” Bear with me…