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EDITORS' NOTE: JUNE  1, 2023 We told Billy Lee to rewrite site instructions. It's irritating to review crap that no longer makes sense. He seems to think people figured out his blog "a long time ago". Sites change; readers evolve, he said. It's not that difficult. Do EDITORS think his readers are total idiots? Really? Get over it, he screamed.   We caution readers: "How to Use This Site" is shit. Don't waste your time.  Readers who arrive at Billy Lee's website by clicking on a link provided by a search-engine site like Google Search might on rare occasions find themselves on a part of the site they didn't expect; they might see the words "NOT FOUND". Not to worry; nothing is wrong that can't be fixed by clicking on the HOME link in the ribbon that runs across the top of the page. Clicking the HOME page link sets all things right.  Over the years, attacks required re-indexing and renaming of links to clean up hacks. The debris left behind is not possible to clean over ever...

Welcome! to The Billy Lee Pontificator, or as the ancient Egyptians might have phrased it; EE EE OOH EE ER ANEE EE (welcome to my writing tablet!) I have no idea what I'm doing, but I hope my blog-site can be a place where family and friends will visit to pontificate freely about whatever is on our minds. My vision is one where contemplation, reflection, and carefully crafted logic will live side by side with wild ideas and misspelled verbal excesses. I hope my posts will get the brain juices flowing and inspire folks to add comments to befuddle, enrage and confuse anyone who reads them. And while we're on the subject, if some reader writes an article and wants to post it somewhere, please consider e-mailing it to me to post here, on my blog. What I'm saying is, people have an outlet to post more than 142 words if they need it -- where they won't be crowding out pictures of babies and birthday parties. If you have something short and sweet, but longer than a tweet,...

VACATION POLICY Until further notice, our entire staff of dedicated employees, sycophants, and apple-polishers will take their annual vacations during the month of June and the first half of July. This policy includes the Editorial Board.  Vacations will be unpaid. For the benefit of those in our organization who are hard of hearing, let me repeat. VACATIONS ARE UNPAID !!! It should be apparent to all but the most disgruntled that the unpaid nature of these vacations is more than compensated for by the generosity of their duration. Billy Lee Notice to readers: During the Pontificator Staff vacation period, folks may continue to visit our site and post comments. Please allow up to six weeks for comment approval.

Billy Lee is a former machine design engineer, career Navy kid, anti-War activist, Francophile, amateur Egyptologist, math/physics hobbyist, and university grad. He loves British-style Blues guitarists (like Joe Bonamassa & Jean-Pierre von Dach). Whenever possible, he fights the good fight to not consume mass quantities of Kroger cherry pies or their chocolate chip cookies; Philadelphia cream cheese glop-spread on any crackers he can find; Little Caesar's $6 pizzas---slathered with Crazy Sauce; also, Crazy Richard's nutty peanut butter on brown bread soaked in Bonne Maman cherry preserves; and low-fat cottage cheese made crunchy with lightly-salted Lay's Potato Chips smashed in.  Married to Bevy Mae, Billy Lee is father to six adult children---three bio and three in-grafted---and grandpa to thirteen grandkids, including two born in Ethiopia.  Billy Lee is a Christian who loves Joe, Hillary, and Brittney. Billy Lee is a lifelong pontificator who believes that civilizatio...

Since going live in January 2014, theBillyLeePontificator blog-site has been successfully attacked three times -- once by bots representing, ostensibly, disgruntled gays; once by people upset about some essays we posted which defended gay marriage (protestors intimidated Billy Lee into shutting down his site for six weeks -- it's a complicated story); and again during the 2016 presidential contest after Billy Lee endorsed Hillary Clinton. Hackers took down the site and an anonymous person threatened Billy Lee's life in a private video message forwarded through Twitter. Site stats suggest that the threat originated somewhere inside the Ukraine.  Despite fear, we hardened our site and continued publishing. Our intention is to keep theBillyLeePontificator.com website public. Anyone should be able to read an article or post a comment on our blog. That's the fun of open discussion, isn't it? We can argue with one another in a safe place, where we are respected&...