At about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, Alexa gave me a serious tornado warning. It doesn’t happen that often. Twelve years ago, during our first winter here, a tornado touched down about seven miles from us, basically obliterating a few good-sized commercial buildings. It happened again yesterday. We were told to go to our basement — we …
STORMS ALWAYS SEEM TO HURT THE WRONG PEOPLE HARDEST Read More »
This short piece is the 699th one I have written for Captive on the Carousel. I mention that because something happened the other day that I had been fearing for quite some time. I repeated a topic I wrote about less than two months ago. Sort of. On November 19th, I wrote a piece titled …
:”What a drag it is getting old …” Mick Jagger was 23 when “Mother’s Little Helper” was a hit in 1966, and he was singing to a generation that was never going to get old. When asked by an interviewer about his future, he said that he couldn’t imagine sining “Satisfaction when he was 50. …
“For more and more Americans, politics has become a religion. It has become a faith. People find their meaning in it. They define themselves by their stands.” These words weren’t written last week. When former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote them in her book “Patriotic Grace,” the Tea Party didn’t exist and Donald Trump was …
Two years ago today … Thousands of insurrectionists attacked the U.S. Capitol and in effect tried to overthrow the federal government. Let’s be honest with ourselves. What happened on January 6th, 2021, was all about Donald J. Trump and his desire to be the king of the USA, and it will be a tragedy of …
TIME FOR TRUMP TO FACE REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR 1/6/21 Read More »
If there is one thing I really like about Facebook, it’s the chance to see people who really matter to me making intelligent comments. Whether it’s my daughter Pauline, one of my three favorite people in the world, writing about the difficulty transgendered children face in school, or my lifelong friend Mick making some of …
As outrageous as it may sound, it might be time to think about putting an end to football as we play it in the United States. The life-threatening injury to Buffalo defensive back Damar Hamlin in Monday night’s game between the Bills and Cincinnati has horrified the country, but it isn’t even the worst example …
It’s said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That makes it a very smart thing for House Republicans to adjourn until tomorrow after failing to elect a Speaker on three different ballots. Especially since wannabe Kevin McCarthy actually lost ground on the third ballot. Nineteen members of …
“America’s noisy worshiping of success, its mania for ratings and rankings, the compulsive celebration of perfection in everything served only as a facade. Behind the optimistic veneer there lies an extraordinary fear of failure: the horror of going down and going under, of losing face and respectability, of exclusion and marginalization. It’s not success, but …
Who is the funniest comedian of all time? And what made him funny? I had always heard, but never really believed, that rage was the key. That only someone who grew up angry, or at least unhappy, could be a truly great comedian. If you’re American, you may not have heard of Peter Cook, but …
