Have you ever called a phone number 75 times, getting a busy signal every time, and then gotten through on call No. 76? Frustrating, yes? Actually no. I felt like the guy who kept hitting myself over the head with a hammer because it felt so good when he stopped. I had been calling our …
There is certainly one compliment I have to pay Rush Limbaugh, whose body assumed room temperature today. Isn’t that a little harsh? Actually, that was a phrase he minted about 30 years ago to use when people died. So using it for him is actually an homage, and I would be willing to bet he …
Editor’s note: This is another repost with some reworking of one of the pieces lost in the restore. The picture at the top says so much about my life, both in what it does and doesn’t say. I don’t know when it was taken, although I think I can narrow it down to the late …
Editor’s note: Another one of the pieces lost in the restore. Exactly what is “cancel culture?” You might be surprised to learn the answer. I know I was. Pick one of these three choices: — banning display of the Confederate flag — removing Al Franken from the U.S. Senate — ending the telling of ethnic …
I suppose it could be worse. Lindsey Graham could have suggested the other significant other of Donald Trump’s sons as a possible senator from North Carolina. Imagine Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr.’s squeeze, in the U.S. Senate. She wouldn’t need microphones for her speeches. Just the same, though, I’m curious what qualifications Lara Trump has to …
Editor’s note: Another one of the pieces lost in the reset. Back in my early days on Facebook, when things were more wide-open, occasionally things would get a little goofy. I never played Farmville, but I was really into Mafia Wars. Back in the day … I joined Facebook in late 2008, the first year …
“It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright. You can’t be forever blessed.” Perhaps the day will come when I stop using Paul Simon’s “American Tune” as a jumping-off point to write about problems in our country, but that time hasn’t come yet. A song that resonated when Richard Nixon was Watergating us was still meaningful when …
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Editor’s note: This was originally posted on Feb. 8 and was lost in the restore. Here it is again with an update at the end to reflect recent developments. We don’t call Bruce Springsteen the Boss because he’s not a leader. It’s difficult to believe that at age 71, after nearly 50 years in the …
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So the drama of Donald Trump is effectively at an end. Oh, he’ll still make plenty of noise and people will still get worked up about him, but he’ll never sit in the Oval Office again. In fact, he’ll never run for president again. That doesn’t mean the damage he has done to our country …
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink …” About 70 percent of the world is covered by water, and nearly 97 percent of it is in the oceans. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” we can’t drink the oceans. We sure can pollute them, though. Did you ever …
