Random cool moment
We arrived in Texas in February of 2018. Besides everything else that was part of the move, like starting a new job, throwing bunches of stuff in storage, new Driver's Licenses, etc, we started work on renovating a historic home…
Update on my spirit
My mood ("spirits" as they are sometimes called) is a bit subdued. If you saw the previous post about Mother's Day, pretty sure it seems reasonable. But add to that the lingering bedamned cold and the fact I have a gall-bladder removal…
Just finished the first of the last
Actually, it was last week, but I've been too busy with other (secret) projects to announce it. But I've finished the first draft of the final book in my "By the Hands of Men" series. Working title: "Ringside at the…
The Paper of Record Just Recorded They’re All Right with Racism. Really.
Or: “The black people were surprisingly good last night…”
One of my personal failings (well, the only one I feel like admitting) is I have a strong fairness impulse. It was the whole Martin Luther King thing, judge people by the content of the character not the color of the skin. My father, who had grown up in the deep South surrounded by virulent racism, introduced me to the concept, mostly by the way he lived his life, treating everyone he met with the same courtesy, fairness, and respect. It was what made me a nascent liberal as a young man.
That belief in fairness was the same thing that drove me away from Liberals. Growing up, my experiences with
I’ve always liked donkeys
Don't know why. Maybe it's something about their faces. They seem to take life very seriously. Turns out in Texas (where we moved and are enjoying a great deal), there are places with more donkeys than local forage for them. …
I swear to the Lord Almighty…
This is the most frightening dog I've ever seen. I was taking pictures of the East Texas flowers, and this dog was sitting in the shade of a house. He never came into the sun. I was convinced he was…
The Elimination Process
By the way, there's mass-shooting you haven't heard about. A Sudanese immigrant went into a church and shot seven people, before one of the ushers (who had a permit for his own weapon) stopped the attempted massacre. Strangely, it's not…
I used to wonder
"When will I know I'm a real writer?" Being younger (and certifiably dumber), I imagined the answer would be something like: Mansion and starlets rubbing coconut oil on my aching fingers. Riots at my book-signings Tabloid reports about my coke-fueled binges…
The First Casualty
Welcome, Instapundit readers. My site, roymgriffis.com, which was briefly wiped out in the devoutly-to-be-wished-for Instalanche, is back up.
(Note: this is the original English version of an Op-Ed piece I was asked to write for Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger on what the election means for the United States)
Trump won.
That surprised not only the Hillary faithful, but a lot of conservatives as well, including me. Because, frankly, most of us (including the candidate herself) figured the end of this movie had already been written.
It may not be known in Europe, but Hillary Clinton had a vast machine behind her: a Democrat National Committee (which, per WikiLeaks, had colluded to suppress the votes of Bernie Saunders supporters), a …