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At what point can we be done with this party? As if the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd hasn’t done enough damage to the cohesiveness and competency of this country, the GOP then decides to allow six committees to push it as their focus. That’s what we need from the party of “freedom.” More ways to figure out how to get objectively unworthy people forced advantages against those that earned them.

Common culture, friends, and advice columns keep reminding us to “communicate.” But communication is much harder than it seems. After all, much of interpersonal communication is not even specifically in words themselves. Instead, when we talk to someone, we rely on a lifetime’s accumulated and internalized knowledge of facial expressions, rhythms, pauses, body language, and musical elements of speech. Even when using the same language and words, people from different cultures do not communicate easily – and certainly not as fully as if they shared the same culture.

In a similar vein, central planners have often bemoaned the fact that ants work together to create amazing things – while people are much harder to organize and manage. Besides, people can be … resistant to being commanded about by those same central planners.

“He was a free man—not merely a background or a race.” — Larry Arnn describing the late Walter Williams

I received an e-mail this week from Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, announcing that Hillsdale had recently endowed a chair in their economics department and named it after the late Walter Williams.

Times are tough with the ever-increasing cost of food. This makes the potluck dinner social event even more important. I believe you can host a dinner for six with an investment of about 10 or 15 dollars. Invite two other couples to share the meal. Ask one couple to bring a simple dessert for six and ask the other to bring an appetizer to munch on as the evening starts. Tell everyone to bring what they want to drink for the gathering. Discounting the cost of booze, everyone is on somewhat equal footing.

The main entree is chicken and dumplings with a green vegetable on the side. That may not sound elegant, but it is comfort food at its best. Purchase a roasted chicken from Costco for $4.99. Deconstruct the chicken by separating the skin, the meat, and the remaining carcass. Set the meat aside, but put the skin, bones, and some celery and carrots in a pot to make chicken stock. After you strain, the solid material from the stock you want about two cups of rich broth. Make sure you included the drippings that were in the plastic container that held the chicken.

Mrs Rodin’s late mother did a fair amount of international travel in her lifetime. One trip was to the Holy Land and to the pyramids in Egypt. She remarked about some of the photos taken in Egypt during the trip that “you can’t see the flies.” Apparently, there was an abundance of flies, but they simply are not caught in the images.

I was reminded of this when contemplating how much I like period pieces in cinema and television. Part of my Prime subscription includes ACORN, Britbox, and the like. The Brits do period pieces like no other. No doubt it is because, unlike their more youthful American cousins, they actually have places that are period pieces. And so it is that one can imagine being transported back to a place and time, say, the 1890s to 1910s, when there were just enough conveniences but before the mass carnages, when you might live your most ideal life.

It’s always a risk to go sailing down rabbit holes, because you never know what you might turn up when you hit bottom. Thus, after a recent conversation with a family member about the previous paternal generation of “She” and its love of the early-20th-century music-hall oeuvre.

My father and his siblings were veritable treasure troves of archaic hits.  You can see a bit of it here, recorded only a couple of months before Dad died, in a conversation with his younger sister Pat: