“Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus? You’ve got to help me make a stand, you’ve just got to see me through another day. My body’s aching and my time is at hand and I won’t make it any other way.” When people talk about the best songs of the 1970s, James Taylor’s lovely “Fire …
“I’m free, white and 21. …” It may seem difficult to believe, but there are actually people in this country who take pride in the color of their skin. Seems strange to me, just as it seems odd that people take pride in their ethnicity, their gender or any number of other things they have …
NOTHING IS DUMBER THAN TAKING PRIDE IN BEING WHITE Read More »
Once was the time back in California when my wife and I were fighting. We had been married 16 or 17 years, and I had lost my job and wasn’t having any luck finding another one. She was angry with me and I overreacted, saying at one point that I didn’t know why she would …
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I saw one of the dumbest platitudes I’ve ever seen just the other day. “Ninety is the new 60.” I’ve seen variations on it, telling me that 80 is the new 50, or 70 the new 40. They’re all dumb enough to make me feel angry, and there aren’t that many things not involving Trump …
Louisville, Kentucky. Nashville, Tennessee. Where will the next shooting occur? And when? It’s tough to guess where, but as for when, the best guess is very soon. Today, tomorrow or the next day. It won’t be long. The fact is that shooting are happening more and more frequently, and days where someone is killing other …
It was 50 years ago that I had my biggest — and last — real acting job. I had the lead in a theatrical production at Northern Virginia Community College. I was the only character on stage for every minute of the play from first to last. I had been in a better play the …
HOPING PRAYER WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR MY FRIEND Read More »
When did Republicans become so terrified of our political system? Whether it’s Tennessee or Florida or Montana or Virginia, whether it’s defending the indefensible in Donald Trump, the party that once gave us Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower has become a complete embarrassment to America. What happened in Tennessee this week is almost …
REPUBLICANS SHOWING THEIR TRUE SIDE IN TENNESSEE Read More »
I was watching one of my guilty pleasure movies the other night when I realized something I had never noticed before. “Stealing Home” with Mark Harmon and Jodie Foster is a baseball movie that isn’t really about baseball. Harmon plays Billy Wyatt, who had been a promising young ballplayer whose life went off the rails …
It has been a lot of years since I watched television the traditional way. What’s the “traditional” way? Turning on the TV at the scheduled time, setting it to the correct channel and then sitting down and watching the show at the same time each week. Sitting through commercial breaks and then watching the next …
“WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America.” When Donald Trump posted that on social media today, I was surprised to see that he had finally said something with which I agreed. Sort of. I believe Trump meant it was outrageous that someone like him should ever have been …
