Do you remember the first book you read as a kid that wasn’t written for kids? If you go to the trouble to follow my writing on this site, the odds are pretty good that you consider reading as one of the more rewarding things you do. You probably started young. I don’t know of …
The Washington Commanders? Seriously? It probably wasn’t the worst of all the possible choices, but it sure seems to me that there’s only one possible response to the once-proud NFL team’s choice of a new nickname. Meh. So the former Washington Redskins, winners of three Super Bowls but essentially irrelevant in this century, have announced …
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of …
CAN TRUMP BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS AWFUL DEEDS? Read More »
Donald Trump keeps edging us closer and closer to the abyss. The only question anymore will be who goes over the edge — America or Trump himself. At a rally in Conroe, Texas, Saturday, Trump said the January 6th insurrectionists had been treated unfairly, and said if he was re-elected in 2024, he would pardon …
In the Weather app on my iPhone, I have about a dozen cities around the world bookmarked. Most of them are either places I have lived or places people I care about live, from Tunis to Tahoe and other points that I check nearly every day. It’s 58 degrees in Tunis right now — late …
One thing that has always fascinated me about Facebook is the Memories tab, where I’m shown things I posted or saw on this date in history. I joined FB in late 2008, and posted this on January 26, 2009. It was basically 25 random things about myself. Here they are 13 years later, complete with …
IT’S THE ‘LITTLE’ THINGS THAT MAKE US THE PEOPLE WE ARE Read More »
If we really want to understand the Republican Party, we have to accept one thing. There is really only one issue that matters at all to the party of Reagan, Trump, Greene and the rest. Making the megarich richer and keeping them richer. Doing this by keeping taxes low on the top bracket and maintaining …
I worked for eight different newspapers in nearly 30 years in journalism. Two of them no longer exist in the form they did when I worked there and two others might as well not exist for all that they have changed. Just as many people remember with fondness the first time they were in love, …
MEMORIES OF EARLY DAYS WHEN IT WAS ALL NEW TO ME Read More »
NARCISSIST — a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.”narcissists who think the world revolves around them.” SOCIOPATH — a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. Sound like anyone we know? I’m pretty sure I’ll never understand why folks …
If I weren’t as old as I am, and if there weren’t other people I was responsible to, I would probably give up on the United States of America. I’m not sure where I would go. Canada always seems like the easy choice. In most of the country they speak the same language we do, …
