Prof. Ornery Talks Politics

The ornery ramblings of a former political science professor turned fiction author

Voting Rights Hysteria

The right to vote is something that Americans consider almost sacred. We are a representative democracy, […]

Notes on Wyverns

The first prompts of the new year. Year Three of the More Odds Than Ends prompts. […]

RCMP Member Writes Powerful Letter

Read this. All of it. Then think about what he’s saying. Then go about your life […]

Friday Thoughts: Normal Life

We’ve been living in Texas for just over a month now. And, for just over a […]

Insurrection or Astroturf?

Tomorrow I expect to hear and see much wailing, gnashing of teeth, sackcloth, ashes being strewn […]

Church Bells

Here we are at the end of 2021. Another 52 weeks of prompts at More Odds […]

Friday Thoughts: Leaving 2021

This is the last day of 2021. I am happy to see it in the rearview […]

I Am So Done

I am getting very tired of reading that the “pandemic” caused businesses to close or prices […]

Turtle Doves and Trebuchets

Second to last MOTE prompt for 2021…week 51. Wow. It’s been another, well, let’s say interesting, […]

A New Home for Christmas

Today is Christmas Eve and we’re in a new home for the first time in eighteen […]