For What its worth

  • On Tyranny

    On Tyranny

    I’ve just discovered the next book I need to buy, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. John Lithgow reads his twenty lessons from the twentieth century. This should whet your appetite as it has mine https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3m2i7

  • Hands off 2025 -2

    Hands off 2025 -2

    Here are a few photos from today. #handsoff2025

  • Handsoff2025 -1

    Handsoff2025 -1

    Just getting warmed up here in Madison WI.

  • Basketball Bully

    Basketball Bully

    No matter how well you play, if you are consistently a bully on the neighborhood basketball court eventually the other kids won’t invite you to the game and will play without you. We have become the bully and the rest of the kids are going to start enjoying the game of b-ball without us. #tariffs…

  • Playing Radio

    Playing Radio

    I can’t tell you how long operating on any digital mode has not worked for me. Years perhaps? Finally today, a new laptop and going back to my original Signalink, I played radio. WInlink VARA HF, SSTV, FT8, almost without a problem. In the process I managed to get FT8 QSOs from Alaska, Venezuela, Cuba,…

  • PSA

    PSA

    PSA: Do not attempt #hamradio repairs after bed time

  • KC9UNZ/AE

    KC9UNZ/AE

    Whew! Just passed my Amateur Extra Class exam. I didn’t realize how keyed up I was about the test until I got the results when the feeling of relief was palpable. I have to admit, at this age I don’t have to take too many tests. Almost forgot how.

  • Add Your Two Cents

    Add Your Two Cents

    Robert Reich suggested we write to our Congress critters in his recent “What you can do” substack. I suggest we do this, however, don’t call, don’t email, actually put a letter in the mail but add your two cents worth, literally. When we were caring for my mother we spent hours going through her mail.…

  • Paradise

    Paradise

    I woke up this morning naggingly aware of the impending damage that could be done, what with Elon and his boys combing though sensitive Govt payment systems, including anytime I got a check for anything, SSA, tax refund, access to countless millions of records of personal information, and the first thing in my head was…

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    So, we start rewriting the world so we can avoid erase inconvenient truths.