trea·son /ˈtrēzən/ noun the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. This has always been a big deal. Outliers who have tried to undermine and overthrow governments have been dealt with in the most capitally-punishable manner, disemboweled, beheaded, burned-at-the-stake, shackled in…
On September 11, 2001, I awoke on City Island next to my newish girlfriend, (now my wife), and looked across the water toward Manhattan. “That’s one helluva fire,” I said. “I can’t even see the towers through the smoke.” The second tower had been struck just moments before. Then, a…
I am totally at sea. I have diligently sought the most fact-based information available in the ever so murky cesspool of what passes as journalism these days, understanding, of course, that I have to use the filter of 75 years of my own carefully honed common sense. I never rely…
…we, hominids, have fully lost the reasoning power of our hubristically touted big brains OR I’m a drooling moron who just doesn’t get it. Maybe both.
How many press conferences will it take before empathetic Joe Biden admits that leaving Afghanistan, by the bone-headed plan that is currently underway, is a shameful miscalculation of the process and a complete misunderstanding of the bad guys? Let’s be clear! We’ve had lots of practice losing wars in places…
It’s snarkily easy, from the comfort of my non-threatening recliner, to lean on the oxymoronic reference. However, full disclosure, I have zero expertise and practically the same amount of accumulated knowledge of anything military. Other than being daily pummeled by a Jr. High bully, I have never actually been in…
I’ve always been a hugger. My dad was a hugger. Most of my family and friends are huggers. Under certain circumstances, I’ve hugged virtual strangers. In 1975, I manned the “Hug You Soberly Home” booth at a MADD fundraiser and collected around $600 at $1 per hug. I can’t think…
Humans waste a lot of time. Most species don’t participate in much, if any, frivolous behavior, but humans, and usually the most comfortable and well-healed among us, are diddlers and triflers and time wasters. And then…there are politicians. I hate to generalize, (no I don’t), but the inefficiency and calculated…
Is there anybody out there? Obviously, nobody’s paying attention to me. The IOC has forced the start of a COVID-infested Tokyo games despite my pleas to the contrary. The Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are being dicked around by lunatics in the can’t-possibly-give-a-shit minority. An in-depth investigation into…
A condo high rise collapsed in Florida and at least 97 people and an uncounted number of pets died because others, who should have cared, didn’t. Devastating fires, floods, hurricanes, heat and cold are ravaging the planet because too many of us, for too, too long, just haven’t cared. Ethnic…