Some issues are never settled. Of course, the biggest and most destructive one isn’t the one that usually comes to mind first. For all the controversy over abortion, it affects a lot fewer people than the real issue that’s never settled. What’s that? It’s obvious. The one issue that will never be settled is lower …
IT REALLY ALL BOILS DOWN TO ONLY ONE ISSUE — TAXATION Read More »
“There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us. Peace and quiet and open air wait for us somewhere.” I was 11 when the first “West Side Story” movie came out, and the poignant song “Somewhere”might have been the first song that ever broke my heart. Tony and Maria are coming to realize there …
PEACE & QUIET HARD TO FIND IN OUR POLITICAL LIFE Read More »
“I have heard the hon. Gentleman speak on this and every other occasion, and as the years roll by I recognise that language such as he uses is one of the main reasons for our political difficulties in the Colonial Empire. I recently had the opportunity of talking to some Burmese gentlemen, and one of …
Which two National Football League teams are playing today at Nissan Stadium? How about TIAA Bank Field? Which baseball playoff game is being played at Citizens Bank Park? Remember when stadiums used to have names that were evocative of the cities they inhabited or the teams that played there? Those were the days, my friends. …
What frightens Republicans more than anything else in the world? Intelligent women? Minorities? Taxation? All those things are nightmares to Trumpanzees and other MAGAnauts, , but there is one thing worse than all that. They hate it when Democrats fight back. Enter Dark Brandon. Republicans started the Brandon stuff last year, A NASCAR driver was …
There was a time in this election cycle that I was fairly optimistic. Not anymore. There isn’t one purple state where the news is getting better recently, and there are even a few blue states in which I’m hearing of developments that make me cringe. I live in the state with two of the absolute …
WE’LL SOON SEE IF THINGS ARE REALLY FALLING APART Read More »
“Magic always comes with a price.” If there’s one thing predictable about television, it’s that 95 percent of shows come out of what is essentially a giant cookie cutter. Family shows, lawyer shows, doctor shows, cop shows, detective shows, westerns … It got especially silly in the ’70s with the (fill in the blank) detective …
“Respect your betters.” Most of the people who like to throw that expression around are better at only one thing than people a lot less “better.” They were fortunate enough to choose the right grandfather. If fact, I’ve never known anyone who was truly better than me who had to say something like that to …
WHEN PEOPLE TELL YOU TO RESPECT THEM, FORGET THEM Read More »
When my friend Mitch reached middle age — at least the part that he would finally admit was middle age — his doctor told him he needed to get a procedure called a sigmoidoscopy. He apparently though the doctor had said sigmundoscopy, but that was something of a Freudian slip. When the doctor told him …
My wonderful granddaughter Albanie will celebrate her eighth birthday later this month. She’s the youngest of six children, and we have established a tradition in our family. Both of our children grew up loving to read, and we made sure they had plenty of books. Both Pauline and Virgile have continued reading into adulthood and …
NO GREATER GIFT FOR A CHILD THAN A LOVE OF READING Read More »
