Randy | May 24, 2020
“Growing up, I was always ahead of my contemporaries in my skills with the written and spoken word. To my great fortune, that gift was recognized and cultivated by a succession of exceptional Teachers. While I can’t pin down the date beyond the certainty that I was still in elementary school, I remember a day […]
Randy | May 18, 2020
Back in March of 2018, I published an article here titled Smoke, Mirrors, and a Soldier, the inspiration for which was summed up in its first paragraph: I read an article the other day written by Josh Makuch and published last Friday to Vice with the title, “I’m a Veteran In Favour of More Gun […]
Randy | May 9, 2020
“The first time I read Lord of the Rings, I’m sure I was personally responsible for skyrocketing values of stocks for companies involved in the production of bacon, mushrooms, and dark, full bodied beers. I absolutely enjoy any literature that confronts me with a description of food consumed by the characters that leaves me wanting […]
Randy | May 8, 2020
“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander — idiom — chiefly British: Used to say that one person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.” ~ Merriam-Webster Further to my comments here a few days ago, I will speak today specifically to the officially […]
Randy | May 4, 2020
Mrs. LFM has asked me to put out an announcement that readers may be encountering, or come to encounter, cases in which links found in articles here that should take you directly to another on the LFM site may instead present a message that the page does not exist. This is due to a long […]
Randy | May 2, 2020
All these weeks into the global clusterfuck spawned by The Pestilence, it seems natural that as governments have become comfortable with the new reality (notwithstanding whether or not the body politic has) they would revert to the old habits inherent in partisan politics and party defining ideologies going back to great great great granddad’s generation. […]