There has been a lot of chatter the past few years about a “war on Christmas.” Most of us secular humanists have been blamed for it and have regarded…
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Listening to the heads of the major American automobile companies whine before Congress today was enough to make me puke. Can you believe this—they each flew to Washington to beg…
An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one…
An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one…
T’is the season for blessings and blasphemies. That is my suggested “war on Xmas” replacement for “Merry Xmas, although it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue. But it’s a more…
The final act in the less than illustrious presidency of Barack Obama might well be that he is responsible for, for the second time, trashing the presidential ambitions of Hillary…
Japanese troops parade in Queen’s Road, Victoria, Hong Kong , December 1941 CONCERTO, a novel by Elizabeth Darrell (1993); THE PIANO TEACHER, A NOVEL, by Janice Y.K. Lee, (2009)…
These days, when Christmas rolls around, I try to resurrect from the cobwebs of memory what I felt when, as a kid, I held both of Baby Jesus and Santa…
Three and half decades ago a huckster with heavily-processed hair rose up and declared he would lead the nation into a new “morning in America.” Posing himself as a Washington…
Whew! I actually wrote that. Where was the bolt of lightening? Actually, the great avenging deity might have understood that I wasn’t calling down his omnipotent wrath upon my country,…