I think it’s time to stop being hypocritical and to start calling Republicans criminals. Mike … Yes, I know it’s overly dramatic, but it is increasingly obvious that the people on the right have gone beyond political disagreements and have reached the point where they will sabotage America and hurt Americans if they think it …
TIME TO SEE THE CRIMINALS FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE Read More »
Some folks might be surprised to learn the battle between Jesus and Santa has been going on a lot longer than they realize. The first memories I have of Christmas go back to the mid 1950s, and there were plenty of people whining about the overcommercialization of Christmas, arguing that Christ was the only legitimate …
Christmas Day was never the most exciting part of the holiday season. Sure, it’s the day the kids awake at the crack of dawn and open their presents, which is nice if you still have children at home. But even if you do, most of the excitement of the day is finished by the middle …
Christmas Eve Eve? American families seem to have two different ways of celebrating Christmas, one in which Christmas Eve matters most and the other in which the focus is on Christmas morning. Kevin Costner even alluded to it as Crash Davis in the famous “I believe” speech from the 1988 movie “Bull Durham.” ” … …
Anyone who is frustrated with the horrific state of television news these days might be surprised to hear who I think is to blame. Ted Turner. The Mouth of the South? Are you kidding? Yes and no. For a guy who owned the Atlanta Braves baseball team, who won the America’s Cup and who started …
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose …” Actually, with apologies to Kris Kristofferson, these days freedom seems more like the right to be an asshole. I’m not sure there has ever been a time — at least in the nearly three-quarters of a century I have been alive — when more people …
RIGHT TO REFUSE VACCINE IS NOTHING MORE THAN BOGUS Read More »
Let me begin by saying I am not a genius. The illustration that begins this post is from the New York Times’ Spelling Bee game, one of the mre challenging and fascinating word games I have found on the Internet. One of the first things I do every day is Spelling Bee. It serves to …
From my Latino days. Not really, but this photo is one of the more unique ones anyone ever took of me. It was almost exactly half a lifetime ago, taken in December 1985, just after I had turned 36. It was the year of my first really successful diet. Starting at the beginning of May, …
“Suppose the streets were all on fire, the flames like tempers leaping higher. Suppose you’d lived there all your life, do you think that you would mind?” The above quote is a song lyric from 1968, from another summer of inner city rioting. The song was by Spanky and Our Gang, who had previously had …
LIFE IS TOUGH ENOUGH WITHOUT DEMONIZING THE POOR Read More »
Everyone has their favorite Christmas movies, even if too many people call something a Christmas movie just because it takes place in late December. “Die Hard” and “Die Hard 2” take place at Christmas, but neither one is about Christmas. Pretty much the same with “Home Alone.” And so many of the more recent ones …
‘LOVE ACTUALLY’ DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIE Read More »
