“But something is happening here and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?” If there’s one thing that is starting to seem very strange to me, it’s the idea of generations. Was it the statement that those born between 1946 and 1964 were Baby Boomers? Or that those who grew up during …
I think it was 11-12 years ago that I had jury duty for the last time. It was the tail end of my 20 years in Southern California, and I think it was the sixth time I had been summoned. I actually served on only three juries — reporters have a difficult time being picked. …
I would like to weigh in on the whole “greatest generation” versus “baby boomers” thing. “You waited till your mother died to write this, didn’t you?” Well … “All right, carry on.” Those of us born between 1945-64 take a lot of crap for having it easy. After all, we didn’t have to live through …
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Kalawao County, Hawaii, has 86 people. Loving Country, King County and Kenedy County, Texas, have 169, 272 and 404 people. Arthur County, Nebraska, has 463. Those are the five least populous counties in America. Los Angeles County has 10,004,300 and is the most populous. Trumpanzees and young conservative activists think it’s impossible that Joe Biden …
Sometimes you really do have to look at both sides of a question to understand it. Since Election Day, we have been hearing how a large number of Republicans, most of them the ones I like to call Trumpanzees, believe that Democrats stole the election from their hero. I’ve heard numbers as high as 70 …
“Imagine there’s no heaven …” As the story goes, when John Lennon wrote “Imagine,” he wasn’t setting out to write an anthem. He just wanted to write a good song about all the things that stand in the way of people being truly happy and then ask people to consider what the world could be …
Socialism? In America? Never happen. There was one time it might have happened, but a man named Franklin D. Roosevelt prevented it. Sadly, none of the people who hated Socialism gave him credit for it. Heck, the actually tried to oust him from office with a coup midway through his first term. The United States …
“I think we could be trending toward secession.” It isn’t often I quote Rush Limbaugh, but in our current situation, it’s at least interesting if not appropriate. When the history of the last 30 years is written, he will be one of the chief characters in the decline and fall of American comity. One of …
“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays …” My wife and I were really looking forward to this Christmas. It’s a rare year for us with both of our Foreign Service children in the D.C. area at the same time. Our son Virgile and his wife are in the middle of three years …
In six days, the Electoral College is scheduled to vote, to put its stamp of approval on the 2020 presidential election. Will that be the end of the controversy that has been raging the past five weeks? Will Donald Trump finally admit he lost, as he reportedly said he would after the Electoral College voted? …
