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 The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed.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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Plant Early, Plant Often

February 18, 2019
There are fewer times harder on a gardener than winter. As we rise out of January’s frigidity, we are experiencing longer and sunnier days that make me yearn to get some seed
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Playing with Fire

February 16, 2019
The press starts to discover  what everyone with a room temperature IQ discerned on Day 1: Police are investigating an alternate theory* in the attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett, and looking into
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Ruinstone – Part VI

February 12, 2019
(Continued from Part V) The siege was delayed as the newcomers, slightly more numerous than the warlock’s force, approached the hillock. Twenty horsemen, dressed in royal colors and led by the crown
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Ruinstone – Part V

February 11, 2019
(Continued from Part IV) They enjoyed the morning sunshine as the cart carried them through an uninhabited land of runty trees and barren hillocks.  The sky was a uniform blue with the
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A Database For Offenders

February 9, 2019
Sometimes the press goes to great lengths to help the wrong people: The Journal News submitted Freedom of Information requests for the names and addresses of all pistol permit holders in Westchester,
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Liberalism causes stupidity

February 7, 2019
It’s not really a new concept, nor is it one that would surprise even the most casual observer of politics and culture, but in the midst of a howlingly funny piece written
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Ruinstone – Part IV

February 6, 2019
(Continued from Part III) Though Fossick hated magic, it was obvious that he had learned plenty about it in the service of the Brethren.  He quickly accepted the relationship between stone, spell,
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Which Way, Christian Man?

February 5, 2019
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons wants to know: (CNN) What type of Christian are you? Do you stand with Lady Gaga and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Mike Pence and Sarah Sanders? Two disputes in the last
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Ruinstone – Part III

February 4, 2019
(Continued from Part II) Grumadir entered the antechamber that accommodated both his writing desk and his runestone.  The room lay between his temporary personal chamber and that of his benefactor, and was
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