If you didn’t grow up in a household influenced by a Swedish grandmother, or haven’t been to Sweden, you may not know what a smörgåsbord is. Certainly none of the American efforts to establish smörgåsbord restaurants here appear to have survived contact with Americans. A smörgåsbord is “a celebratory meal and guests can help themselves…
WC’s virtual mailbox is overflowing; there have been complaints from the email host. So WC will undertake to answer a few questions and delete lots and lots of emails. Questions are in italics; WC’s responses in plain text. Hey snowflake, how come you’re afraid of a real man as president? WC lived in Alaska for…
Well, Paradise, Idaho, anyway, to do a little glamping. Blog posts will be irregular, at best, until he gets back.
It’s once again time for a half-hearted nod to due diligence as WC attempts to follow-up on earlier blog posts. It’s not journalism; it’s not even close to journalism. But it may demonstrate WC is paying attention. Long-time reader Larry McGee reports seeing a Miller ’20 bumpersticker on a beater pickup recently. Bad Penny has come…
WC has apparently confused folks by describing his approach to this blog as the embodiment of the Magpie Principle. While we live in confusing times, WC doesn’t want to unnecessarily contribute to that confusion. So let’s see if WC can explain his reference. (WC has used the term – sometimes as “magpie sensibility” – to…
WC doesn’t envy anyone who attempts English as a second language. The language is riddled with euphemisms, words with multiple meanings and contextual defined term. As just one example, let’s use a term WC blogged about recently, “yard birds.” WC meant bird species seen in his yard. But “yard birds” has other meanings. There’s the…
Ten years ago today, on November 29, 2008, the first blog post on Wickersham’s Conscience went live. That post was read in the first week by . . . a total of eight readers. The U.S. and, for that matter, most of the world, was mired in George W. Bush’s recession, Barack Obama had just…
