politics – Robert Raymond’s Blogtorium

March 13, 2025

Leading the horse to water (DOG EAR)

o I’ve been thinking about the divided nation we live in. People are so touchy now (and being a “people”, I suppose that extends to me). In my wife’s weekly coffee club, someone invited a clod who sat across from me and talked politics to the person next to him (in rude and belittling ways) until I silently got up and walked out. So I figured to try that reach-across-the-divide thing that people always tout. On one Facebook post, someone was claiming that it was right for the VA to be shuttered since there was supposedly massive fraud taking place. […]

May 1, 2026

Both sides of the aisle (DOG EAR)

o I’m currently reading One Second After by William R. Forstchen. I was talking good books and nuclear war (of all things) with a couple of guys in the train club and my conservative counterpart loaned me this one. I don’t want to get too much into the novel since I still have a review to write (and, more importantly, I haven’t finished yet). But there are things that bother me. First off, a forward by Newt Gingrich – not one of my favorite servants of the American King. So I skipped that and got into the story. Interesting premise but, […]