Author: Dan Hull

Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]

We no longer require humor in poets. We demand salvation. “” Mark Van Doren, 1950, commenting on the subtle graduation of William […]

No one really knows who wrote “Le Morte d’Arthur.” The best bet is Sir Thomas Malory, a mid-15th century knight and rogue’s […]

Immortality, the 1990 novel by the late Czech writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023), is the one book everyone should read to understand ultra-political […]

This is a 2020 book by an angry, misguided, talented black woman. Some good points here on white male mainstream mediocrity. Assuming […]

Go somewhere different. Meet someone different. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East Anglia. Always a festival.

He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. An imaginative, impertinent patent clerk […]

Rule Seven: Know the Client The “12 Rules of Client Service” I have been posting one-by-one starting on November 19 [2006] appear […]

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1879

Catherine Deneuve, 52, in 1995.

Based on my various news aggregators and feeds, Western culture is now so fragmented and degraded that we’ve raised minutia and trivia […]

Young Ben Disraeli: “I rust like a Damascus sabre in the sheath of a poltroon.” Is being a good lawyer enough? Consider […]

I raptly watched the first Super Bowl with my dad and brother in 1967. To us, a jock clan, nothing was cooler. […]

When will my beloved AA get back to getting people clean and sober to participate in real life?

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Chekhov with Maxim […]

Ten soldiers wisely led, will beat one hundred without a head. –Euripides (480-406 BC)

Neither the tiny rural village of Lindsey nor the surrounding countryside has changed much since 1634, when one side of my family […]

RIP Wayne Kramer. “I’m sick and tired of playing these blues/And I’m sick to my guts of the American Ruse.”

Damn. It’s getting cold again in the northern hemisphere. Cold as a witch’s tit, Jack. The purpose of this post””which over the […]

Comparisons between old Rome and modern U.S. are exciting and instructive. ~ What About Paris? When in Rome, do as many Romans […]

Indian Hill. I miss growing up in Indian Hill, Ohio. A community that protected its own. If I were driving around at […]

“You and your firm are judged by every piece of writing that goes out the door.” –A wise person, possibly Dan White, […]

Bring back real women and girls: Annabelle Wallis, English, b. September 5, 1984

I like E. Jean Carroll. Always have. Fine and accomplished writer. Hoosier. Midwesterner. Funny as hell. Former super-jock. Cheerleader. Ex-beauty queen. Former […]

Don’t forget. My new Colonial Predator Unfair Trade Coffee product launches March 1. All the Oppression,Twice the Caffeine.

Center bottom photo: My Great Aunt Helen Hull in 1922. Born 1906. So that makes 4 generations and counting of serious Hull-McCracken […]

ÃŽle Saint-Louis on the Seine, seen from a famous bridge. Americans, the Alpha-humans, the elect and the “winners” in modern world history, […]