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 The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed.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

Philosophy·Religion

Is This a Simulation?

June 24, 2017

The Simulation Hypothesis is the latest in bong resin philosophy: Top bank analysts claim there’s a 50% chance our world is a computer simulation and we’re all plugged into a Matrix-style virtual

Culture

All Cancers Matter

June 23, 2017

Pictures of dogs are now racist: The union representing San Francisco police officers published a photograph of two dogs in its monthly newspaper that critics say belittles the Black Lives Matter movement and

Religion

Awesome to Behold: a One-Minute Sermon

June 15, 2017

And male and female of all flesh went into the ark as God had commanded Noah: and the LORD shut him in. — Gen 7:16 It is an interesting detail that God

Enemies·History

Keynes is Destroying Western Civilization

June 13, 2017

One of the most important single ideas that caused Western Civilization to evolve into the rich and prosperous place it has been for about 400 years now is what was once known

Culture·Family

Destroying Normality

June 7, 2017

And now, a “special surprise performance” just for the kiddies: Families at a Manhattan public school talent show got an unexpected lesson in human sexuality when a grown man took the stage

Culture·Politics

The Great Pretenders

June 6, 2017

Just another fake hate crime in our self-contradictory new world of gender pretenders: DURHAM, N.C. – A transgender woman claims she was escorted out of a public North Carolina restroom by security

Children·Family

Why I am a prepper

May 30, 2017

In October of 1991, a freak snowstorm rolled across the American Midwest. Originating in the Colorado high plains, it streaked down I-70 across Kansas and then northern Missouri, finally petering out east

Culture

Midnight Basketball is not a solution

May 29, 2017

An academic discovers social breakdown: THE most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home. Conservatives have been banging

Culture·Fitness

Leftists are weak

May 27, 2017

In other news, water is wet: A new study from Brunel University London found that physically weaker men are more apt to believe in socialist policies, such as redistribution of wealth. Meanwhile, stronger men

Firearms

The care and feeding of reloading dies

May 23, 2017

I got the reloading dies on the right in the mail as part of a mismatched lot I found on ebay. So since they’re a little gunky, missing some pieces, etc., I

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