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…
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It’s that time again, now almost a daily occurrence, for those “Thoughts and Prayers” to be offered upward on behalf of the victims of…
FOREVER SUZIE It’s always a pleasant surprise to discover a mention or a new review—especially if it is positive—of one’s book. Recently, a reader of mine sent me link from…
the faces of “home grown” terror As I have written about elsewhere in these pages America is a country that is easily terrorized. Shortly after the events of 9/11 when…
A COMEUPPANCE IN THE LAND OF HYPOCRISY I admit to having almost complete contempt for the American Southern states, especially the former confederate “slave states.” Not only were they…
Of all the untrustworthy candidates for the Republican presidential nomination – – and believe me there is not much to trust in any of them – –Blinky Ben Carson takes…
WHATEVER IT TAKES For years I have been bitching in these pages—particularly as it has related to Right Wing ideology and its Republican practitioners—about the political behavior that upholds the…
10.4.2015 MEMO TO NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE Date: 2 October 2015 To: Committee From: DCJ We were recently reminded that, in your aquavit-addled wisdom, you once awarded your Nobel Peace…
IT’S OFFICIAL! POPE FRANCIS IS A JERK! HUGS (Yuck!) KIM DAVIS You heard it here, first, on Dragon City Journal. I was trying to go a little bit easy on…