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

Gardening

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

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 The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed.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

February 26, 2018

Undercover Gardening: Mulching with Shredded Paper

September 21, 2019

A Spiritually Dark Future

Culture

Shaming Truth

May 7, 2018

Joy Reid’s not getting her participation trophy, after more homophobic* blog posts come to light: The LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National has rescinded Joy Ann Reid’s allyship award in light of Mediaite‘s

Family·Science

Carrington's Nightcap

May 5, 2018

Newt Gingrich worries about the night the lights go out in Georgia: Within a year, nine out of 10 Americans could be dead.* And whatever causes the national apocalypse—be it North Korean

Religion·Science

If By 'Controversial' You Mean 'Stupid'

May 2, 2018

then we have a controversial new theory concerning the Shroud of Turin: As [Thomas] de Wesselow is quick to admit, this idea is only a hypothesis. No one has tested whether a

Finances

What Happened to Kondratieff's Winter?

April 30, 2018

Michael Alexander looks around and notices that the snow’s not only gone, it never arrived… The last seven decades have shown what appears to be another price revolution. The regular pattern of

Family

What If You're Wrong?

April 28, 2018

JQ wonders via email if I’m talking my book: What if you’re wrong? You say certain trends can’t continue much longer but what if they do? What if the dollar keeps getting

Politics

It's Gonna Be So Damp

April 26, 2018

when NATO memes 4Chan: …if the most powerful political-military alliance has the real battlefield on lockdown, some worry it’s floundering in the battlefield of the internet, where ideas go to clash, Kremlin

Legal

A Solution to the Transgender Crime Conundrum

April 25, 2018

New York City chooses pretension over fact: New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has announced that prisoners in the city will be housed according to the gender with which they identify instead

Science

How many angels can dance on the head of an astrophysicist?

April 23, 2018

A dozen sounds about right: KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Clusters of stars on the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy may be home to intelligent life. That’s that word from an astrophysicist

Nationalism·Religion

Our Father, Who Art in Washington

April 21, 2018

Handouts be thy name: Researchers call it an exchange model of religion: If people can get what they need from the government (be it health care, education or welfare) they’re less likely

Culture

Welcome, Liberal Preppers

April 18, 2018

It’s almost a Poe: Colin Waugh bought a shotgun four weeks before November’s election. An unapologetic liberal, he was no fan of firearms. He had never owned one before…Last month, Waugh added

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