Gay marriage, gun control, global warming, research funding for, well, for just about anything…the tipping point between any of these issues transitioning from unholy, socially unacceptable, liberal propaganda or Chicken Little scare tactic to the righteous and responsible column, is the proximity of enough opponents to a loved one personally…
He only expected the very best from everyone, and it went without saying that his best, (which was better than most), is what he always brought to the party. He’d say that it was all about the work, never about himself. Those of us who knew and loved him, knew…
I was on a flight from Albany to Burbank the other day with a brief stop in Las Vegas. For one thing, I was the only through passenger. For another, the flight was packed to the gills with testosterone oozing, mostly overweight, forty-somethings who could all easily pass for Peter…
Ronald Reagan had it. Certainly, many powerful figures throughout history had it. But now, through virtually instant access by nearly anyone to hoards of starving, cross-pollinated social media junkies, the ability to seem like you have something to say has trumped, (pun intended), the once tacit requirement of actually having…
Thirteen-hour filibuster N. Korean nuclear bluster One dead Hugo Doggie bag diplomacy to go A record high DOW Lower unemployment…wow But Still lower expectations for hope And oh New Pope?…nope!
I’m guessing that the Michigan State Lottery did not provide the promised “windfall funding” to public education and that gambling casinos in downtown Detroit have not filled the city’s coffers with “economically game-changing” tax revenue and, as far as I can tell, the bailed out, and reemerging American automobile industry…
If only it were about a bold and swarthy explorer like Magellan or Vespucci rather than one of the most blatantly stupid ideas of all time. So, a bunch of overpaid and generally unqualified representatives of, well, as it turns out…hardly anybody, with a complete lack of understanding, (or possibly…
And by ship, I mean like Carnival’s Triumph kind, floating powerlessly, reeking of human waste and with far less purpose than Gilligan’s Minnow. Remember the immediate reaction by disgruntled Republican deck hands to Obama’s first election, declaring, as their “number one priority”, that his tenure would last but a single…
I don’t know how universal or deep the “winning” gene is buried in our DNA, (a test of Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood may shed some light), but modern criteria to determine winners from losers, (unless there is something other than chiding involved in the, “there are no losers”, mantra in…
I have been irrationally frustrated by the political debate on, well, just about everything for as long as I can remember. Like many people who try to stay informed to take a self-righteous stand as the goodly voice of reason battling the dark souls of greed, corruption and the generally…