El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results.  But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot.  It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled
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What Jews Can Do

November 18, 2019
In an article titled, How to stop the horrifying resurgence of anti-Semitism, Moshe Kantor has some ideas for you: The Jews of the world must know that there is now a courageous
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Why America Will Learn Nothing

November 9, 2019
Christopher Roach of American Greatness simultaneously bemoans and illustrates the blind spots of America’s thinking class: Instead of recognizing their fragmented authority at home and decreasing dominance over the Western Hemisphere, our
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Cold Composting

November 5, 2019
Every gardener is familiar with the recipe for creating compost: a perfect mix of greens and browns, water, turn, water, turn, water, turn, profit*. The pile heats up, the pile cools down.
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More Overlooked Prep Items

October 29, 2019
As with diatomaceous earth, lots of items belong in your SHTF stockpile but do not make the most popular lists. Here are three more such items that you should add to your
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Waiting for Boogaloo

October 26, 2019
Winter is coming: A new poll conducted by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service conducted a poll and found a shocking statistic that showed the majority of Americans believed that
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Fly, Little Moth, fly!

October 19, 2019
A once-larval academic spreads her new wings: Anthropologists are known for their attentiveness to social inequality, but few have acknowledged the plight of their [adjunct] peers. When I expressed doubt about the
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GDP Is A Totem

October 17, 2019
noun /ˈtōtəm/ totems, plural A natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem. Y’all have seen this chart before I suspect,
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