Prof. Ornery Talks Politics

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

Lazy Sunday

Lazy Sunday afternoons are great. Until you start feeling guilty that you aren’t doing anything. But, […]

In Defense of All We Hold Dear

I just posted a short story…it’s free! In Defense of All We Hold Dear was inspired […]

Writing and Procrastination

Yesterday’s post was rambling and a tad incoherent. Today’s post comes to you courtesy of my […]

Memorial Day

Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, Memorial Day is not the same […]

Total Control

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term “totalitarian” to denote those political systems which were created […]

Writing Weather

What the ever loving hell? Where’s my May weather? It’s been rainy and freaking COLD! It […]

Reaching the finish line

Grading is DONE! Let the whinging begin! Well, I haven’t submitted final grades yet, and I […]

Friday Morning Thoughts: Writing

This writing thing is a lot of fun! It’s also a lot of work, but I’m […]

Sitting around on a Saturday

It’s the Saturday of Easter weekend. We don’t really celebrate Easter besides going to a friend’s […]

Death and pets

I am waiting for my cat to die. He arrived in our house about a month […]