Mitch returned from a weekend in the country and was telling his friend about it. “We played a game called cornhole and I didn’t like it at all,” he said. “Why not?” his friend asked. “Couldn’t you get the beanbags in the hole?” “Beanbags?” I believe it was humorist Finley Peter Dunne, writing more than …
It’s amazing to me at my age to learn that wonderful feelings of happiness can come almost out of nowhere. I signed onto Facebook this morning and soon realized someone had posted a message on my page. The sender was one of my first cousins — I have four who grew up in Ohio — …
Every once in a while, something pops up on Facebook that piques my interest. “What is the greatest ONE LINE in a song ever?” I hate to be too boomer-centric, but I don’t know if there was ever a generation to which music was as big a deal as it has been to us. We …
So it has come to this. America’s worst president — heck, one of America’s worst humans — is demanding to be reinstalled as president 664 days after losing his bid for re-election by more than seven million votes. Donald Trump now seems to be saying it is all about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He started posting …
100,023. When I signed on to my website this morning, I did what I always do first. I checked to see how many hits I got yesterday and how many I have had in the two years I have been writing for Captive on the Carousel. No, the number above isn’t daily visitors. The most …
For pretty much the last 100 years, public education was free up to a point. At the beginning of the 20th century, most men were fortunate to complete an eighth grade education. In fact, in the middle of the century, when I was in school, students were allowed to drop out after finishing the eighth …
When did we get to be so damn mean? And so selfish? According to statistics from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as of this month there is a total of $1.75 trillion in student loan debt. President Biden is forgiving a small percentage of that debt — $10,000 each for students below a …
Who would ever have figured it? I have completely changed my mind about building Trump’s wall. Well, not completely. I do favor building a wall people cannot climb or cross, so that it keeps them out of the United States. I just want to build it from Atlantic Ocean, all along the Georgia-Florida border, hooking …
“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.” The verse is from the King James Bible, Matthew 19:21, and it’s one of the ones most ignored by an awful lot of American Christians. Especially the …
Watering while black? We’ve all heard one story or another about how difficult life can be for African-Americans in dealing with law enforcement. It has been proven that black motorists are stopped by police and state troopers far more frequently than white motorists. In fact, that’s where all this started, with the idea of DWB, …
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