Bruce Walker

Midland

Writer at Freelance

Midwest Regional Editor at The Center Square

Columnist at The Morning Sun

Freelance writer on culture, pop culture and public policy.

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Articles

Column: John Barleycorn must live

3 weeks ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Comes a time when it’s mandatory to step away from the morass of misdeeds and moronic mistakes that is the Mordor of modern matters of state. It’s unofficially summer, so let’s pour a mug of our favorite malted beverage and put aside the facts shamelessly and scandalously suppressed by our nation’s leaders and the hacks who report on them. I’ve been telling readers for years that our previous president was but a shadow of the dimwit plagiarist who plagued public life for decades.
Column: Southern Poverty Law Center continues to grasp at relevancy

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

“Don’t say, ‘hate,’ say, ‘Dinner at eight!’ Let’s eat!” – The Firesign Theater. When you’re a hammer, everything is a potential nail. If you’re the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center, the presumed nail is hate, as in the group’s annual Hate Map. Does anybody, besides its in-house lickspittles, take this group seriously any longer?
Column: For Pete Townshend’s sake

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Happy 80th birthday, Pete Townshend! Longtime readers will know he’s my favorite songwriting rock-and-roller, placed high on a pedestal that includes Bob Dylan and Van Morrison (who belong to no other genre than the ones they created), any number of blues and jazz performers, and Frank Sinatra, who is also in a category all by himself.
Column: Pulitzer Prizes print the legend

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

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Column: Flamboozlery and snake oil

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry and The Rainmaker; George C. Scott in The Flim Flam Man; Robert Preston in The Music Man; and Joe Mantegna in any number of David Mamet projects: a shortlisted cinematic cadre of scoundrels and rogues, seeking to outsmart the common folk with deceit and treachery for a presumed payday.
Column: Europe’s cautionary renewable energy tale

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

How arson is caused by climate change is anybody’s guess, but when you’re paid to make tenuous or nonexistent connections, that will always be your default excuse. Responsibility for the blazes in North Carolina and California falls squarely on human bad actors, whether it’s sloppy forest management or evildoers excited by watching the world burn. But don’t tell that to Peter Sinclair, who has been turning up as a regular contributor to this fish wrap.
Column: Requiescat in pace, Pope Francis

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

I likely disagreed with Pope Francis on policy matters more than I concurred, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t also admire him. The former Jorge Mario Bergoglio was, in my view, a weak successor for his two predecessors, Popes Benedict and John Paul II. Benedict and JP II were ardent defenders of the faith whereas Francis – for all of his many good qualities – hinted at the Marxist-tinged Liberation Theology of fellow South American and defrocked priest Leonardo Boff on many occasions.
Column: Who was that masked man?

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Forgive the hodge-podge nature of this week’s column. Work, family, and recreation have been stirred into a miasmic cauldron of extraordinary complexity. First, allow me to wish those among you who celebrate a blessed Holy Week. When the fish wrap containing these words hits the doorstep, it’ll be Holy Thursday – among the most solemn commemorations of the Church calendar, topped only by Good Friday.
Column: Signs our albatross republic is dying

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

“Is this a Russian conspiracy? No, it’s just idiocy/Is this a Chinese burn/I gotta dinosaur for a representative/It’s got a small brain and refuses to learn.”The above epigraph, from Graham Parker’s defiantly bitter song “Mercury Poisoning,” is also true for Michigan’s 35th District residents. The Saginaw Bay region hasn’t had Michigan Senate representation since January 3 because Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hasn’t called for a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Kristen McDonald Rivet.
Column: Breathlessly perpetuating misinformation

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

When you’ve lost Bill Maher and Jonathan Turley … maybe it’s finally time to fold the tent of public broadcasting at taxpayers’ expense. Once upon a time, squandering bricks of public money to support a cultural and educational bulwark for those growing up in the hinterlands might’ve made sense.