Linda Brady Traynham
The Stuff Of Legends
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
I haven’t written much lately because both the financial and political news, at best, look like the very thin libretto of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, while the worst was surely written by a particularly bad Japanese comic strip writer. The only “transparency” in government these days is the gauze-thin [...]
Brother You Asked For It!
Friday, May 7th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Or perhaps instead of quoting Francisco D’Anconia, we should go with a line from “Judas’ Song:” “The world’s in ruins around us, and all because of you.”
Okay, brothers, you demanded 14 paychecks a year instead of only 12, and you got them. Shorter work weeks with fewer hours per day [...]
Vindictive Uses Of Government
Monday, April 19th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Harming your neighbor through bureaucratic means is on the rise, and why not, when anonymity is guaranteed and no action will be taken against you if your allegations are not true? Communists and the Code Napoleon!
Wasting our time in many ways is the result of increasing government intrusion into our [...]
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress VS Freedom of Speech
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
I learned a terrific point of law tonight, one which cheers me after a week of being in a funk over fifteen months that feel like thirty years during which not a day has passed during which I have not felt hated, oppressed, threatened, outraged, and depressed by all that “hope and [...]
The Deficit Problem
Monday, March 29th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
THE DEFICIT PROBLEM:
1. Instead of Obama, Harry, and Nancy going to the trouble of writing a budget proposal for 2011, simply pull out the budget for 2001 and use that. Win, lose, or draw, what each department got then is what it has to spend in FY 2011-12, and tough [...]
What Ever Happened to Civility?
Friday, March 19th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
An occasionally distasteful measure of how effective those who write on politics, economics, “memes,” and mores are is the quality of those who oppose them. This does not make receiving hate mail any more pleasant, and after reading Gary Gibson’s and mine today I am pondering the relative efficacy of a [...]
A Conversation With The Great Wonk on Prepping
Sunday, March 7th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
WONK: We were without power for 8 days in January 2009. Although we had a generator, we had no water during the January ice storm because the generator was not wired in to the house, and we are not on city water. Once I wired it into the house, my furnace [...]
Stick Close to Your Desks
Monday, March 1st, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Stick Close to Your Desks and never go to sea and you all may become rulers of the Queen’s Naaavvvvvy.” Gilbert and Sullivan are timeless.
Consider Admiral Mike Mullen, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a prime example of G&S, although it is improbable that he is surrounded by his [...]
Inept Terrorists, Wasted Lives, and Fuzzy Thinking
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
I never heard of Joseph A. Stack until yesterday, despite the fact that he lived about a hundred miles South and West of me. I would have preferred never to hear of Joseph A. Stack.
Asia–our segundo, not the continent–came in to say he had heard of the crash on the radio, [...]
TEOT-WAWKI FICTION AND FACT
Monday, February 8th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Those of you who keep up with my ramblings over on Whiskey and Gunpowder know that I’ve been reviewing writings on TEOT-WAWKI, and so far I have covered two by James Howard Kunstler, two by James Wesley comma Rawes, and a horrifying one by Forstchen entitled One Second After. A fiendish [...]