“Heroes” A Walmart television ad pumps their new “American Heroes” campaign. It’s always a good idea in America to hook your support of the troops to selling your crap made…
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Dear President Obama: “Yes we can!” was your political mantra of the campaign. And we believed. But, alas, more and more, it seems, you can’t. We were already disappointed with George…
Actuarially, Ted was on the young side, only seventy-seven when he died. But considering his brothers’ fates . . . . Given the eulogies and encomiums related to forty-seven years…
Once, long ago, I considered going the way of St. Francis of Assisi or Ignatius Loyola, forsaking the trappings of a wealthy and privileged life (as if I really had…
Anybody with half a brain knows that the Second Amendment to the Constitution was meant for militias and not for dimwitted men who have a compelling need for what could…
It happens to all people who get to the pinnacle of power—they lose perspective. The worry is that this might be what is happening to Barack Obama. Obama’s election to…
When your life spans the rapid social change that has occurred from WWII to the present it is easy to reflect that you are living at a time of great…
The French had the right idea in 1789. That statement alone ought to royally piss off those right wing hypocrites who concocted “freedom fries” so they could keep up the…
In these pages I have addressed or referred to “our Republican friends” from time to time. We have wondered and even worried about them. How could people we knew back…
We ain’t done yet. If we manage to avoid being swept away by an economic tsunami (Part 1) of our own making, or by a nuclear holocaust (Part Deux), much…