Every Friday, the Wall Street Journal print edition has a section entitled Mansion, where they do stories on homes of the rich and famous, and merely rich. Sometimes, they do a subject like "bought an old house and renovated it", and profile families who bought and renovated old houses. There are also many stories about …
Are you fascinated by Ancient Egypt? Have I got a Podcast for You!
A couple of years ago, a Ricochet friend turned me on to author T. Lee Harris, who wrote a short novel (The Eloquent Scribe) set in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Ramesses II. The hero of the detective story is a young apprentice scribe named Sitehuti. In the first chapter, he acquires a …
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Two of Cee’s Photo Challenges in One!
Cee Neuner runs a bunch of fun photo challenges. First, she runs her "Flower of the Day" (FOTD) challenge...daily! Then, weekly she has her CMMC (Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge). So, this week's CMMC challenge topic is "Rainbow Colors/more than four colors in your photo". [links are to today's challenges] Well, it just so happens that …
Unintended (?) consequences of the Left’s environmental movement
The Leftists of the world think that humans are destroying the planet. They firmly believe that human-generated "greenhouse gases" have been causing the climate to get warmer for decades, and they believe that, unless the world essentially ceases to emit such gases from activities such as driving cars and trucks fueled by gasoline, and heating …
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CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds
And Cee didn't even ask me what this week's subject should be! My readers and followers will know that one of my favorite activities is taking video and still photos of all the variety of birds that visit my backyard suet and seed feeders. In all seasons, and through all kinds of weather, my trusty …
Will this “officer-involved shooting” be the last straw for the Seattle Police?
For decades, but increasingly in the past three years, the Seattle Police Department has been beleaguered; despised by the city government (made up of Leftists who still think of police as "pigs), mistrusted by the black community (the unacknowledged source of a majority of criminals), and under a consent decree initiated by the Obama (in)Justice …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #189: Odds and Ends
I like to keep my eyes open, in case I see something unusual or interesting to photograph. Of course, this is much easier, now that I have a pretty good camera ready, wherever I go (thanks iPhone!). The day I went down to Martha Lake Park, I was looking over the dock railing, back at …
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The Left. This is who they are.
The Far Left has run Seattle and King County for decades. These stories tell who they are. Seattle City Council considers using the Seattle Public Library buildings as emergency homeless shelters. [the sainted "homeless" have already been using library facilities as daycare centers, bathrooms, and drug dens] The big homeless camp outside Seattle City Hall …
RushBabe49 is proven right yet again. Absolute power, once achieved, is rarely yielded. Updated!
Remember the many times I have stated that the Health Nazis will never yield their absolute power? Remember when I opined that, for them, the pandemic will never end? I have been proven right again. Here's the headline in today's news: Washington Health Leaders urge continued mask wearing after mandate lifts. The so-called "health leaders" …
Your SOTU Founders Comment for the day
Tonight's State of the Union speech was held inside a Capitol surrounded by a fence. Why the fence, you ask? That fence was erected because the shrinking violets in the US Congress and Senate live in fear of their own constituents. Here's what one of America's Founding Fathers had to say about that. How many …
