So, the past few years of America’s dark descent have come down to this? After the manufactured hysteria and authoritarian power grabs of COVID, after the fraudulent presidential election of 2020, amid the continuing persecution of hundreds of January 6 protestors, and amid the continuing censorship, warmongering, political and financial corruption, racial and gender obsessions,... Read More

Consider the humble doughnut, generally a ring or flattened sphere of fried dough topped or filled with sugary or fruity flavoring. These sweet, satisfying bakery products have been created and enjoyed for centuries in various forms. Then in the mid-1900s, a big U.S. corporation called Dunkin’ Donuts became very successful by selling what can best... Read More

I was born in Chicago in 1960, and I’ve lived in the same region all my life. But I find myself wondering every day now, “Where the hell am I? Is this really America?” It seems to me that the United States of America—including its government, its big corporations, and even its population—has purposefully set... Read More

I recall that when I was attending St. Albert the Great elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, during the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the history teachers used to tell us that the United States had never lost a war. Keep in mind that this was while the foolish American fiasco in Vietnam was... Read More