Whether the one thousand-mile by thirty-foot structure being proposed by the intellectually challenged or some metaphorical equivalent, the intent of such a barrier is…let me find just the right word…stupid. Yes, people are sneaking across our Southern border, and, although I have no specific data, I would bet that there…
I guess the sour-faced meanie from The Howdy Doody Show was Buffalo Bob Smith’s benign way of introducing us kids to the reality of braggarts and bullies that we would all inevitably encounter. Although he was scary to the four and five-year-old me, his nasty outbursts were always vanquished by…
The most interesting thing at the Iowa State Fair: Deep-fried, chocolate-dipped, bacon-wrapped butter
This is normally the point in the election cycle where I just can’t help myself from using inappropriate language, lashing out at the sheer stupidity of the candidates while I wonder if there even is a leader for the confused, misled, under-educated country we’ve become. I thought it could have…
It’s human nature to sometimes take a passionate stand, pro or con, solely based on those opposed to or in support of a hot-button issue. It dawned on me, as I was falling feather-like into sleep last night, that I have been solidly on the “con” side of this debate…
Viva la revolution! Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement succeeded in toppling the corrupt US and mafia backed Bautista regime only to spend more than fifty years in economic isolation. Castro’s professed dream of a socialistic people’s republic became its own totalitarian, oppressive regime and the resulting years of trade…
Excuse me for being like the guy that won’t get in step with Ali v Clay or Caitland v Bruce or Istanbul v Constantinople, but I remain a Persia-phile through and through. Why would a lover of Dick and Jane, The Sun Also Rises, The Prophet or even Fifty Shades…
It makes people crazy. It’s hoarded, stolen, worshiped, collected, exchanged, borrowed/lent, counterfeited, begged for, spent-like-a-sailor and “the root of all evil”. It’s real value is, well “less than the paper it’s printed on” but, although there’s no published empirical proof, it’s universally accepted that it “makes the world go ‘round”….
On April 20, 2010 British Petroleum’s Deep Water Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It continued, unchecked, for eighty-seven days. The devastation to the water, beaches, wildlife and the lifestyle and livelihood of millions of people in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida cannot be quantified by simple…
Just when you thought we were sinking hopelessly into the corporate/political quagmire, an unexpected majority of Supreme Court justices rise up on the side of “and justice for all.” I find myself reticent to parse the thought processes of the more conservative assenters of the Affordable Care Act, lest I…