The pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong refer to their police as the “po-po,” a rather innocent-sounding sobriquet for a force that has unfortunately transmogrified into a militarily outfitted and thuggish…
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The novel coronavirus has provided me with the time and recommended social isolation to return to a subject that has interested me from my boyhood days. Call me wacky, weird,…
Joe Biden sent me an email today thanking me for helping him and his campaign. I never gave Joe a donation or even a word of support or encouragement. Since…
The Latin etymology of the word means “to break apart,” which, of course, aptly describes the process of an entity losing its integrity, like the putrefaction of an organic body.…
Read Part 1 Dear Jinping (if I may presume the familiar), Have you read through Part One of this posting? Hopefully you have an attention span that it exceeds…
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One aspect of the rationale for Donald Trump’s ramped up the trade war with the PRC is that the Chinese are deceitful thieves (see, it takes one to know one)…
Remember that old saying about “the sun never sets on the British Empire”? It was true once. But it hasn’t been for a long time and the apt saying today…
Full disclosure: like Brett Cavanaugh I am also an alumnus of a Jesuit high school, although we were not a prissy rich-boy boarding school that produced guys who sexually-assaulted women…
Ja, ja!, we made it! Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah, Ooom-pah! Ilse Koch, the notorious Nazi “Bitch of Buchenwald” concentration camp (1945); Kirstjen Nielsen, U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security, “Bitch of Brownsville” concentration…
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