The Terrible Pertinence of the Texas Schoolbook Depository

A man sights out the window at the Texas Schoolbook Depository, Dallas. Photo by John Griswold.     I would bet that at least once every day of the week (except Monday and Tuesday), there is a young guy with a beard and wraparound shades on the back of…

Will the Promise at the End of CPAC Hold?

CPAC audience during Donald Trump’s speech, August 6, 2022. Photo by John Griswold     Donald Trump’s keynote speech at the end of CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) in Dallas last Saturday ended with a scripted, dystopian litany of all he says is wrong with America under a Democratic…

Reaching the Climax at CPAC

A superfan at CPAC Texas 2022 waits for the speech by Donald Trump. Photo by John Griswold     Protestant services this morning at the Hilton Anatole marked the end of CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference ) Texas 2022, which was held in Dallas. The conference itself appeared to…

CPAC and Technology

Metaverse, conservatives, CPAC, paranoia, technology, wireless, Trump, cult

CPAC Day 1

CPAC, Dallas, Sean Hannity, Viktor Orban, conservative, conference, Donald Trump

The Night Before CPAC

CPAC, McCloskey, Trump, GOP, Dallas, elections

The Common Reader at CPAC in Dallas

CPAC in Dallas, 2022, unites Donald Trump and a cast of MAGA characters for a big show in the year of both January 6 and the midterm elections.

Ol’ Blue Rides Again

Photo by John Griswold     I suppose I should have known how appealing an old truck would be to some other people by my own reaction when I saw it at the curb. Ol’ Blue, an F-150 from the mid-1990s, was sitting with a For Sale sign in its…

The Great Gift of Time (and Its Proxies)

Photo courtesy National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons     Some of my earliest memories, I realize now, are actually of time. The invisible wind making a wave that approached in the prairie grass; dappled light under the tree that changed with the incidence of the sun. The fatigue of…

Of Being Slighted

controlling others by ruining their possessions

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