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Happy Birthday, Michael Jordan! (handwriting analysis.)
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Happy Birthday to Michael Jordan! (February 17th, 1963) This week’s handwriting analysis is a player whose name is synonymous with basketball. It’s been argued Michael Jordan is one of the best NBA players in history. Former high-flying Chicago Bulls shooting guard known as “Air Jordan”, he has been a six-time NBA champion, two-time gold…
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Happy 50th birthday Vince Gilligan! (Handwriting Analysis)
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Happy fiftieth birthday to one of my idols and inspirations, Vince Gilligan. Hard to believe he’s only a half century old. His writing has impacted most of us through our adulthood and it’s hard to imagine life without his contributions. Of course, I’m a huge Breaking Bad fan (NM is where I call home),…
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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!
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Feb 7th 1812 is the birthday of one of the greatest writers of all time – Charles Dickens. Dickens is so legendary in fact that many historians credit him with igniting the festive way modern society celebrates Christmas. It’s not difficult to see how. The classic story “A Christmas Carol” is a parable about…
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HL Mencken vs. The State of Arkansas
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Today (Feb 3rd) in the year 1931 the Arkansas state legislature passed motion to “pray for soul of HL Mencken” after he called the state the “apex of moronia” among other things. Let’s rewind a bit. HL Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun in the 1930’s. Around that time he wrote 3 columns about…
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Not an ideal place for incompetence (it’s not about hating Trump)
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It’s not about hating Trump. It’s about incompetence. Humor me and let’s pretend you have a child in the fourth grade. When you meet your son or daughter’s new teacher, Mr. Drumfp, you discover this is his first-year teaching. You congratulate him on getting through school and know his first-time teaching will be challenging…
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What makes the Chinese New Year different?
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Happy New Year! It’s the year of the Rooster, the 4715th year of the Chinese calendar. Cheers! Shouldn’t we all enjoy celebrating two beginnings each year? The American traditional New Year’s is too quick after the holidays. In most cases, I’m not ready to start my resolutions, eating right and being disciplined. It takes…
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Linda Sarsour Sharia Law – Women’s March Retaliation
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Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American activist and executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. There are 2 words in that sentence that instantly make conservatives lose control of their bowels – “arab” and “palestinian.” I’m writing this because Linda Sarsour helped to orchestrate the 2017 Women’s March which was a huge…
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Women’s March on Washington, 2017
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As I got ready to join thousands of women for the Women’s March on Washington I periodically checked in on social media to watch as our numbers grew. Some ladies seemed confused, why are we marching? What do we hope to accomplish? At this point, there is so much. Where do we begin? One…
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Today in History: The First American Novel “Power of Sympathy” Published
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The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel. The book was published by Isaiah Thomas in Boston on January 21, 1789. In the story, the characters’ struggles illustrate the dangers of seduction and…
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NY Times Retracts Editorial Saying Rockets Can’t Fly
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”Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.” – Albert Einstein The New York Times is a respected paper. Some might even call it a beacon of journalism, but that doesn’t mean it’s unquestioningly right 100% of the time.…