State of the Bone

We’re back……….

It’s been just about 8 years. So much has transpired in both American political scene, and in the lives of the Patriot Bone family. I’m not going to recap all that here. I’d rather get right back to covering the scene, and maybe a time or two reflect on the events in the 8 year gap.

I will mention a couple of relevant things though, related to the site and me.

First, in case you wonder what you are up against, here it is. I am an Edmund Burke – James Madison – Russell Kirk conservative. I accept as fellow travelers the 3-legged stool crowd

Second, the only personal news from the 8 year gap that you are likely to see here: contributor and dear friend Pete departed us for heaven on August 18, 2018. He was 83, and while his hearing had been fading for years, he was looking pretty good right up until April of that year. I seriously thought he was going to make 90 easy and maybe challenge for 100. But for whatever reason, he faded fast. Not a bad way to go: 83 strong, then check out quickly. I remember telling my friend Martin that at some point it was looking like months, not years. The day came when I told Martin it was now looking like days, not months. And the day came, and I spent the day with him on his last day.

I look forward to seeing him again, same as I do Moses Sands, Richard Lucy, and Bob Chiore. Let’s not dwell on it.

Third, as far as PatriotBone goes, I have one other contributor now, Stella, and she is one phenomenal person, and I hope you will enjoy her. Total mind of her own, and I’m not going to demand that she toe the Burke/Kirk line. She’s not a formulaic conservative, but she is conservative, and like I said, she will contribute to the flavor of Patriot Bone in a way I think you’ll like. I hope to entice a couple of other friends, who are not blogging veterans, to chip in. I’ll not name names here, because like all of us, what we do as outspoken conservatives comes with a cost and a load of caution. As EPU it is not impossible to suss out who I am in the RW, but I’ll not help make it easy. I will recommend that my two friends in question use nom de plumes, just because leftists get personal.

Anyway……. I’m back. It’s on like Donkey Kong.