Editor’s note: Another one of the pieces lost in the reset. Back in my early days on Facebook, when things were more wide-open, occasionally things would get a little goofy. I never played Farmville, but I was really into Mafia Wars. Back in the day … I joined Facebook in late 2008, the first year …
“It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright. You can’t be forever blessed.” Perhaps the day will come when I stop using Paul Simon’s “American Tune” as a jumping-off point to write about problems in our country, but that time hasn’t come yet. A song that resonated when Richard Nixon was Watergating us was still meaningful when …
‘FOREVER BLESSED’ IS STILL A WORTHY GOAL TO SHOOT FOR Read More »
Editor’s note: This was originally posted on Feb. 8 and was lost in the restore. Here it is again with an update at the end to reflect recent developments. We don’t call Bruce Springsteen the Boss because he’s not a leader. It’s difficult to believe that at age 71, after nearly 50 years in the …
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So the drama of Donald Trump is effectively at an end. Oh, he’ll still make plenty of noise and people will still get worked up about him, but he’ll never sit in the Oval Office again. In fact, he’ll never run for president again. That doesn’t mean the damage he has done to our country …
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink …” About 70 percent of the world is covered by water, and nearly 97 percent of it is in the oceans. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” we can’t drink the oceans. We sure can pollute them, though. Did you ever …
Let’s get one question out of the way right away. The photo at the beginning of this piece is not fake, photo-shopped or altered in any way. It’s a picture of America’s two most infamous celebrities — together. Yes, it was taken sometime back in the past, before O.J. Simpson got away with it and …
Reposted with an update at the end. One of the saddest things in life is when something doesn’t live up to your expectations. My earliest memory of a big disappointment was in the summer of 1966. I was 16 that summer, and I had been looking forward to the movie “Modesty Blaise,” a spy spoof …
GREAT EXPECTATIONS OFTEN BRING BIG DISAPPOINTMENTS Read More »
You can’t ride with the cops and root for the robbers. And if you become inciter in chief to the insurrection, you can’t expect to be on the payroll as the commander in chief for the Union.” Jamie Raskin nailed it. In explaining why Donald Trump is guilty and should be convicted, he left the …
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Sometimes things happen. A couple of days ago, half of my home page disappeared. To get things back to normal, I had to ask the company that runs my site to fix it, which meant restoring to an earlier date. That’s why the most recent blog is one from January 30th and everything since is …
When a dog wants to show submissiveness, he lays down on his back and shows you his belly. When a politician wants to show submissiveness, he gets on a plane, flies to Florida and meets with Donald Trump at his cheesy country club. As William Faulkner once said, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even …
