JORDAN VALLEY LOG HOME ©2013 Mitchell Jon MacKay PERCHED ON A HILL the Wanek farm overlooks Marsh Road, M-32 and the Jordan River State Forest and Valley. John Wanek or Vanek came from Czechoslovakia in the 1860s/70s, settled on grant land, and became a squared log home builder, his home the prototype. The MacKay family … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2013
REINCARNATION
REINCARNATION A SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFTAIN nearing death proclaimed to his tribal members in attendance that he would come back as a male child soon and would be known by a birthmark commensurate with a mark upon his skin acquired in the course of life. Soon after his death a baby was indeed born replete … Continue reading
REVERSE DISCRIMINATION
REVERSE DISCRIMINATION From the White House Down THAT’S WHAT IT’S COME TO when one kicks out the clever rhetoric and public relations of politics. The two Negroes in the highest power play position have pretty much shown us their proclivities now, they being well hidden to date. The pompous speeches of well-intended crossover or moderate … Continue reading
QRYPTIC QUOTES
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “BROTHERHOODIES – endangered species.” Lucubrates Continue reading
STAND YOUR GROUND AGAIN
STAND YOUR GROUND AGAIN (and again) The Endless Altercation PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS PROLIFERATE demanding repeal of Stand Your Ground laws. This goes back at least to the Bernard Goetz encounter in New York City when he pulled a handgun on five teenagers, he white, they black, on a subway train, the teens acting unruly and threatening. … Continue reading
CYCLISTS & VEHICULARISTS
CYCLISTS & VEHICULARISTS Mitchell Jon MacKay VEHICULARISTS? Vehicularist: noun, one who drives a motorized vehicle. Bicyclists can legally ride a bike on paved roads. In fact it is postulated that paved roadways were first installed for bicycles to extend the life of tires, that being before Guinness invented the improved tire model. Cyclists can even … Continue reading
DETROIT, DETROIT
DETROIT, DETROIT NO, NEVER A SONG WAS WRITTEN about the streets of the Motor City, unless one accepts “Your Merry Oldsmobile”, “Feel Like a Ballgame on a Rainy day”, or Motown song styling as such. Oldsmobile brand is discontinued, Tiger Stadium demolished, and Berry Gordy left after a successful advent. Exciting glamorous times those were … Continue reading
HOODIES & HEURISTICS
HOODIES & HEURISTICS Continued WE LEARN BY EXPERIENCE. Heuristic reasoning is equivalent to autonomous learning or autodidactic as opposed to empiric or formally educated results, more the Occam’s razor than the refined methods of determining outcomes. In simpler terms it’s the school of hard knocks. Heuristics is not syllogism and can be construed as dubious … Continue reading
LINCOLN – MONEY MARTYRED
LINCOLN – MONEY MARTYRED Book Review Belatedly THIS IS AN ODD BOOK from the dusty arcane shelves of used book stores, literally and figuratively. Published in 1934 and subsequent reprints through 1985, it seems to fall into the category of the occult and yet fact checking substantiated much of the information imparted. This story purports … Continue reading
QRYPTIC QUOTES
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “No one makes a fool of anyone else but by making a fool of himself.” Lucubrates Continue reading
MORE JERKOF ALL TRADES
MORE JERK OF ALL TRADES DEAR JERK: I saw this internet story about a redneck device for mixing bread flour using a cordless drill set in some kind of wooden frame. It had a bowl under it and was apparently stirring the flour and water and whatever else. Is that real and it is safe? … Continue reading
PRISON TALES I – The Communications System
PRISON TALES I The Communications System SINCE 1998 and the publication of LISA’S STORY about a young lady police officer’s untimely death, communications have come to me from prisoners, one who related that though hardcover books are not accepted in jails or prisons, and only “Approved Vendors” books in prisons, some bootlegged copies were smuggled … Continue reading
OF BUREAUCRATIC CASUISTRY
OF BUREAUCRATIC CASUISTRY An Oxymoron Deciphered CUI BONO? Who benefits? This is the cutting edge postulation in all dealings between man. With government there comes a dichotomy of intent, first the concept of order, then the reality of cost. Simply put, if some are to lead, the rest must contribute. Mutual benefit is the presiding … Continue reading
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