El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results.  But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot.  It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled
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Christmas cardboard compost

December 27, 2018
If your house is anything like mine, late Christmas morning is a time of cardboard. Cardboard from the Nerf zombie gun box. Cardboard that was wrapped around that new scooter. There’s even
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Saving Xmas

November 27, 2018
CNN Columnist Roland Martin joins a battle centuries too late: Because of all the politically correct idiots, we are being encouraged to stop saying “Merry Christmas” for the more palatable “Happy Holidays.”
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Visions of Jesus

November 24, 2018
A young Christian asks an old one: I’ve read a number of secular scholars who argue that Mary Magdaline only saw a vision of Jesus Christ on Easter morning, since we know
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Kill the King, Part V

November 7, 2018
(Continued from Part IV) His Majesty, the mad king, Colter thought. Then he laughed. The man thought himself a god. But what was he to Colter?  If Colter was willing to give
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Kill the King, Part IV

November 5, 2018
(Continued from Part III) Colter arrived at the door of the guards’ anterroom, and he was frowning again.  Nothing seemed to be going his way. He had talked to both Rookies: each
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Kill the King, Part III

November 3, 2018
(Continued from Part II) A few quiet hours guarding a lonely old man could not be that bad, could it? It could. Colter found himself in an ornately furnished square room with
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