by Dan | Jul 18, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
Yes, despite our national majorities and the encouraging results of the 2018 midterms, there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about Trump and the GOP in 2020. But over the past few days, the pundit class has been aggressively pushing the alarming notion that if...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
Enough about the Democrat Party being one big tent. It’s more like a refugee camp inhabited by multiple parties that would naturally — in a parliamentary system — squabble and scrap before elections, but then come together to form a coalition...
by Dan | Mar 30, 2019 | Black Sheep Manor, Blog, Featured
One of the new things we’re trying in Year Three here at stately Black Sheep Manor is a seed-starting system based on a U.K. technique called “soil blocking.” My stepfather, Michael Sasser, gave me his soil blocking equipment in the winter of...
by Dan | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The one quote by Mao Zedong that every American seems to know is this one, from 1938: “Political power grows from the barrel of a gun.” A couple instances over the past week reminded me of this line. The more recent one was something Jeff Daniel’s...
by Dan | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
The excerpt from Donna Brazile’s new book published in Politico this morning isn’t getting big headlines on the major news sites yet. Yet. But Brazile’s account of what she found when she replaced Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the head of the...
by Dan | Sep 9, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Random Xarking
I built my first blog in 2003. Called it Mysterious Erotic Technical Manual (which is now the name of my Tumblr). That was back when I was scared to death that revealing my personal thoughts in public would get me fired from my job as a newspaper editor. I was a bit...
