If there’s one thing true, it’s that far too many Americans no longer believe in the words from Emma Lazarus’s poem “New Colossus” that are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. Don’t kid yourself. Our tolerance and inclusiveness have nearly always been something better in ideals than in reality. Ken Burns’ brilliance in studying historical …
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$1,250. $2,342. The first number is the approximate Blue Book value of my car, a Hyundai Tucson we bought new in Van Nuys, California, in August 2009 for about $25,000. We have put 161,000 miles on it, coast to coast east and west and Florida to Massachusetts north and south. (Not all at the same …
What are some of the qualities that make up a good person? What are the characteristics you would want to have … or you would want the people you associate with to have? Let’s start with the most important one of all. Honesty. If there’s one thing absolutely necessary in interpersonal relationships, it’s being able …
Is Lindsey Graham insane? There really isn’t any other way to explain it. Earlier this year, the scenario looked good for Republicans. The party out of power usually gains in the midterm elections. It looked like a lock for the GOP to retake the House of Representatives and no worse than an even chance to …
Remember when Republicans actually used to participate in governance? If you don’t, OK. It has been quite a while. Lately it seems as though all they want to do is, as they say, own the libs. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, aka Trump without the obesity or the combover, is the latest one out of the …
Most people dream big when they’re young. They dream of becoming movie stars, sports heroes or astronauts. They dream of being cowboys or pirates, and they grow into dreams of being doctors or lawyers or fabulously wealthy businessmen. Most of us never get a chance to pursue the biggest dreams. You can be a very …
I was rereading a book by Dave Barry today while my wife was getting her hair done. I had read “Lessons From Lucy” when it was first published in 2019. It was a sweetly poignant story about learning the simple joys of life from old dogs. Quite nice, but the real shocker was “One Last …
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I was driving home from the grocery store this morning when I noticed the American flag at our golf club was flying at half staff. That’s a pretty serious thing, and it usually means a great America — usually a former president — has died. Although as strange as our culture has become, it could …
Something very strange happened last night. At my advanced age, I don’t often have vivid, complex dreams anymore. I used to have quite a few, some pleasant and some that would qualify as nightmares. For about 15 years starting in my late teens, I had dreams in which I was being chased and before being …
This will be more of an update of yesterday’s post than a completely new one. Of course the Queen died yesterday. I doubt that it was much of a surprise to anyone after her physicians said they were concerned. Queen Elizabeth II was never the kind of person about whom bulletins were posted, and the …
