Laura, Kiss My Dribble
Admittedly, I am not the biggest professional basketball fan in the world (my youngest son holds that title) but I took a great deal of satisfaction in watching LeBron James win the 67th NBA All-Star...
View ArticleIs Sarah Huckabee Sanders Competing with the President of the United States?
I spend a lot of time pondering tactful words to use to describe the current Trump administration. I am running out of vagaries and innuendo. Simply stated, the President of the United States is an...
View ArticleDoes Your Friend Own a Gun?
In 2003 I moved to upstate New York and lived there for a little more than two years. Unlike the teeming metropolis we see in Spider-Man movies with bumper to bumper streets and sidewalks, upstate...
View ArticleChanging Elephants in Midstream
The liberal left is embracing a gaggle of conservative public voices that could derail the expected blue wave, among them; Bill Kristol, David Frum, Michael Steele, Jennifer Rubin and now Mona Charen....
View Article… and the little children shall lead them
There is a dispute within the religious community about the meaning of Isaiah 11:6. Around the edges, for people like me who are more fearful of disappointing a late great-grandmother than I am...
View Article‘Popcorn, Guns and Trump’
I used garlic salt with a sprinkle of processed parmesan cheese on my popcorn. I make it the old-fashioned way with two tablespoons of oil in a pot on the stove top. I sat in my favorite chair with a...
View ArticleYou are getting sleepy…
The man most responsible for modern-day hypnotism died two-hundred three years ago, March 5th, 1815. His name was Franz Anton Mesmer, and yes, in case you are wondering, he was mesmerizing. Donald...
View ArticleBad Pride…
Clergyman John C. Maxwell, author of the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership wrote about good and bad pride. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of...
View ArticleLiar Side Chats
In 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the twitter of his day, radio, to inform and comfort the American people using hope, truth and a New Deal. President Donald Trump is using lies, little...
View ArticleAww Chuck(s)
Back in 2014 after years of calculated Republican misinformation, the Affordable Care Act was the most hated and misunderstood piece of federal legislation since Social Security. Admittedly, the...
View ArticlePompeo, Rex and Circumstance
The grandeur of pomp and circumstance is the austere prelude to a ceremonial celebration. The move of Mike Pompeo, assuming Senate confirmation, from the Head of the CIA to the Secretary of State was...
View Article(Stormy) Daniels in the Liars Den
Most of us have heard or read the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion’s den. Daniel is given a high office, only to have his master, fooled by Daniel’s rivals, condemn him to death in the lion’s den....
View ArticleMcCabe and Mr. Mueller
It is hard not to slip and fall when stepping on the banana peel laden path of hypocrisy paved by the Republican Party. Marc Short, legislative affairs director for the White House accused Democrats...
View ArticleA Strange Bedfellow
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 129 million Americans voted in the 2016 election for the presidency of the United States. Being generous and not separating out the Democrats, Independents or...
View ArticleFaceplant
Shortly after the election of 2016, CEO Mark Zuckerberg maligned anyone who dared suggest that Facebook played any major role in the presidential election, "Personally, I think the idea that fake news...
View ArticleThe Calm Instead of the Stormy
I hesitate to link the events of my weekend because one moved my heart, the other moved the contents of my stomach. For me, the brave young faces of tomorrow outshone the dark underbelly of America’s...
View ArticleA Short Walk into History
Oliver would come to be the most well-known father of the 13 families that volunteered to put their children, literally in the line of fire in 1950. Little seven-year-old Linda Brown held her father’s...
View ArticleNo Facts, Drunk and Stupid is no way to Go through Life…
Yes, I altered Dean Wormer’s words a little bit in the title, but the Trump Administration and his phalanx of incompetents and sycophants should be on ‘double secret probation.’ We have endured for...
View ArticleAmerica Can We Finally, Do the Right Thing?
I guess I am more foolish than I thought. I have watched the executions of black men after black woman after black men, for petty crimes and fear, and I still hold out hope. The hope is that someday,...
View Article2 Corinthians,and a Republican Went into a Bar...
5:55 pm – 3 Apr. 2018. I opened my front door this evening after a long work day, and immediately realized I had left my TV on. I heard the voices of exasperated and breathless TV anchors describing...
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