An essay about feeling better (or worse) in a 24-hour news cycle. Don’t take two aspirin and get a good night’s sleep; stay up and take something stronger—TV. I was…
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POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
You know I don’t’ blog, but prefer to write essays. But this entry will be sort of bloggish and chatty for a change because my schedule is rather frazzeling. I’m…
You’re probably not going to believe this. (Actually, you probably don’t believe anything I write.) In a group discussion in which the subject of the American military DADT (Don’t Ask,…
I have been recently engaged in an exchange of emails with a dear old friend with whom I share what might be called fundamental liberal-humanistic political-social values that extend back…
I was telling a friend the other day that the first commercial flight I ever took I just walked on (to a smoke-belching American Airlines DC-6) dressed in a suit…
Now don’t get the idea that I’m going Lou Dobbs on you. The Birthers are a mob of cretins and hoodless KKKers. But in raising Barack Obama’s provenance they have…
I don’t know how you feel about paying some yahoo ex special ops, or Navy SEAL dude, or left over trained killer from Belgium or South Africa, and other Blackwater…
It’s probably the equivalent of fighting words to suggest that President Obama might be something as antebellum South as a “houseboy,” but I am disappointed enough with him to take…
Thanksgiving will never be quite the same after watching that now famous video of Sarah Palin rambling nonsense in front of the guy jamming turkeys into some sort of gruesome…
There is an old Latin saying—Fortuna Stulti Favet—Fortune Favors Fools. We all may know individual confirmations of this proverb; but historically, it does not appear to apply to nation states…