Fair Warning

In the turbulent 70s, I watched a dust up between two artifacts of the American media from the 40s and 50s. (These names may not even ring a distant bell today, but they were almost household names "back in the day".) NBC journalist Edwin Newman was interviewing the near-famous George (Georgie) Jessel (a sarcastic crank who made his bones being a smart-aleck bon vivant). Jessel kept cracking wise about the New York Times by referring to it as PRAVDA - the Russian communist apologist / newspaper. Newman, the last American major-media journalist with a shred of integrity, booted Jessel off the show for his slanderous remarks about such a revered American institution.

Times have changed. Now, the "The Gray Lady" (as the NYT is often lovingly called) is unapologetically pro-Marxist in its support for Obama and PRAVDA - once the most despised purveyor of godless communism - is warning the world of "the American descent into Marxism".

This humble little blog is about my paranoid flight to self-sufficient living for just such a time as the America is no longer a free republic. The article in PRAVDA, which you'd never hear in the New York Times, is fair warning. I may be paranoid, but that doesn't mean that we're not heading into deep difficulties.