Another Viral Post, November 11th
It has been 29 weeks or 8 calendar months since we locked down our society to battle the scourge of COVID 19. Nationally, we are clearly in the third run of new cases. The graphs from the Atlantic’s...
View ArticleEight months with the Fujifilm X100V
Daffodil in Snow (Fujifilm X100V) Once upon a time, this used to be a photography site. The site’s camera-related content, particularly related to Fujifilm gear, continues to be the most viewed...
View ArticleMerry? Christmas 2020
Well, here we are at Christmas, 2020. Like everything else in this godforsaken year, it trends toward joyless. My wife and I are spending it alone as our children are essentially trapped in the...
View ArticleCheapskate curmudgeon forced to buy a new phone… The Samsung Galaxy S20 Review.
A reluctant It was a Friday afternoon in the Adirondacks. I had been out with some friends cross-country skiing on a snowy afternoon. After skiing, on the way back to town, I made a few phone calls to...
View ArticleMore Photography with the Samsung G20.
Smartphone fine art photography? After two months with my Samsung Galaxy S 20, I have to admit it appears to be a real option. Though I am not sure, that all of my work qualifies as “fine art” I would...
View ArticleViral Post, April 15, 2021 Who do you Trust?
It is week 55 of curve-flattening Soviet-style regulation spawned and nurtured by our Governors. Despite our increasingly recovered and/or vaccinated population, there continues to be devotion to the...
View ArticleViral Post, August 5th,2021: Ignorance and Lies
It is been a year and 5 months since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last week, the false promise of vaccination fed to us by government health officials have been proven to be a lie....
View ArticleViral Post September 9th, 2021: Can’t Handle the Truth?
It has been a year and 5 months since we first experienced the work product of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. I must admit, that if you would have asked me on March 16, 2020, the date we originally...
View ArticleVaccine Failure
This is an article I wrote for The American Thinker. Bailing (Panasonic G1, Lumix 14-45 f3.5-5.6) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/12/who_isnt_getting_infected.html The post Vaccine Failure...
View ArticleViral post, December 23, 2021: My Omicron Infection
It is been a year and 11 months since the happy little packet of spike proteins and mRNA arrived in our country courtesy of Dr. Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party. So here’s a little schadenfreude...
View ArticleThe FDA is Broken
Rhododendron and Pine This article appeared in The American Thinker on 7/21 2022 The FDA is broken. In a three-year span, they have morphed from a regulatory agency that set the standard for the...
View ArticlePandemics End?
This article, edited, appeared in The American Thinker on May 16th, 2023 Several weeks ago, on my way to lunch, I stopped at the testing facility in our hospital for my weekly COVID test. This has...
View ArticleA Really Bad Idea: Touchscreens in Cars.
Hemlocks on the Trail:(Nikon D800E, Nikkor 50mm f1.8) For a variety of reasons, I have not been doing much writing, or for that matter photography, for about a year now. I’m not sure what happened,...
View ArticleKamala’s Biggest Failure.
October at Fountain Lake (Samsung Galaxy S 23) With the presidential election one week away there is so much wrong with our current national leadership situation. Ever since the July presidential...
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