The Illogical Logic of Guns Since the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the NRA, called on Congress to place armed law enforcement Officers in every American school. Per CBS News "The NRA's position was that having guns in...
The Conundrum So now we have it. Two old men that nobody cares for are running to be President and political machines that control the process will award one of them. In either case, we are stuck. Biden a nice guy that is just old and Trump,...
Where is Ophrah? Some time ago I wrote about Fox News and how they have changed their format from a news organization to monetizing and capturing audience share irrespective of the facts. Not to be out done by Fox, now along comes CNN with the New and...
The circle goes unbroken History offers a few items both past and present to digest, lest you want to vomit: Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews from Germany. Chairman Mao Zedong wanted to eliminate the Bourgeoisie from China. Joseph Stalin wanted to eliminate the Ukrainian people Vladimir Putin invoked...
The story of “Trumpty Dumpty”. There was a great man (or at least he thought so), who sat on the wall of highest office of the land, who on October 17, 2017, announced, “It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.” Holy Cow!! Yep, Donald...
The phone rings, the pleasantries begin with “hello” or “are you there”, then comes the little “BLEEP”. With that little sound, you are transferred around the world to God-only-knows-where and “Telemarketing Hell!!!!” begins. Someone starts the pitch: “This is Anthony (or Samuel, or Elizabeth or some other heavily...
April 18, 1976 was not a great day It was Easter Weekend and Russ and Nan, and Joan, my fiancée, and I had commuted together up to NJ for the holiday to visit our families. It was Sunday and after enjoying the weekend and massive Easter...
In the not to distance past there have been waves of injustice, discrimination, prejudice, hatred, incarceration, and even murder against all of us. Many of these injustices were cured through social awareness, others through the courts and some required legislation. Woke is now defined in Webster’s dictionary...
A take-away from the latest fund-raising ad by Donald J Trump highlights bragging about his tax cuts, and statements by Speaker McCarthy, among other things, today’s record spending, and record levels of debt. What it fails to indicate, is how we got here. Yes, some of...
In the months leading up to Uvalde, Governor Gregg Abbot reduced mental health funding in Texas by more than $211 million and since that massacre at Robb Elementary School, he pledged $5 million to “assist” the Uvalde Together Resiliency Center (According to an article written...