The author of this blog is Robert Steele, residing somewhere in the United States, the Caribbean or Europe (weather permitting), whose writing has not appeared in The Weekly Standard, National ReviewThe American Spectator, Human Events and Front Page Magazine.

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"What's another word for Thesaurus?” ― Steven Wright

Slip Sliding Away: A Local Establishment and Its Discontents

Those fiends! Starvation and dehydration and neglect I could withstand beyond the endurance of lesser men. But that appalling cacophony was the one brutal assault on the senses that I cannot abide for more than a minute.

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When Harry Became Sally

"We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia." —George Orwell, '1984'

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Correspondence: Man vs. Earth

Is this given thing a big deal, or just nature doing what it will? Is that other thing not to be bothered about, or is it an existential foreshadowing of planetary doom?

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Time and Time Again

The second hand sweeps along in full and easy view—a delightful display of mechanical regularity. The other hands are problematic. Both of them are, like the second hand, in constant motion. Or so I'm told.

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An Open Letter to Two New American Citizens

You didn't pass out over too many tequila shots in Ciudad Juarez and wake up in El Paso with a killer hangover and nowhere to go. You got here the legal way: you paid you dues and bided your time and traveled far to get here.

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