Here we go again. Spring.   And while I appreciate the good weather, the green shoots that announce the coming of flowers and the budding trees, I don’t appreciate the chemical sprays …

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that you’ve heard from the media that the birth rate in developed countries is going down. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that “Deaths are projected …

One of the joys of living in the country is that we always have some kind of job to do. Spring, summer, autumn, winter—there’s always some chore to keep us busy. And I never work alone, so chores …

Happy New Year, one and all, and, hooray! we’ll soon mark off the first of four interminable years. Let’s begin by thinking about Artificial Intelligence, which is the companion of …

As the holidays descend, it’s a good time to think about our goals for 2025 and how we’ve managed to (choose one) (a) achieve them, (b) fail miserably, (c) forget or evade them.   As …

Poor Mr. Hegseth. Burdened with trying to make sense of a leader who is (a) inarticulate and (b) has no plan. We can imagine the call that arrived in Pete’s office in late September: …

I had just come home from the radio station where my co-host and I had played a few clips from our road trip to the governor’s ham breakfast at the Missouri State Fair....

Rural Economies Are Frail

A day or two after the bombing of Iran a meme went out with POTUS 45/47 standing in front of one of those “Mission Accomplished” banners popularized by POTUS 43—you remember the …

In my last column, I suggested that the world will experience a financial depression, of the 1930s style, as our fearless leader waddles around his own private fantasy land. I am deeply sorry for …

Well, here we are—Crunch Time! It’s become a drag to think about/listen to/research/opine on the distance between Rs and Ds, and how massive the differences have become. If I have to read …