Think Again Published October 20, 2017 Have you watched the baseball play-offs this year? If you’ve made it through a full nine innings you probably live somewhere other than the eastern time zone or your bedtime is much later than mine. Many of the games have finished well after midnight and have taken an inordinate [...]
Who Gets What . . . And When? Published October 13, 2017 Hurricanes bring destructive winds and torrential rain from Texas to the Carolinas and the Caribbean up to the Ohio Valley. Wildfires eat up very expensive real estate in California. Just in the Mother Nature category alone, headlines tell tales of devastation and economic [...]
In 1492? Are You Sure? Published October 6, 2017 As the country’s annual salute to Christopher Columbus approaches, it makes me stop and wonder how we as a nation came to choose the captain of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria to be the official founder of America. Not only were there natives already on [...]
Dance To The Music? Published September 29, 2017 Quite the brouhahas are taking place before NFL games this season. Even the casual observer of football probably knows about a player named Colin Kaepernick who famously decided to not stand and put his hand over his heart during the playing of the national anthem before a [...]
Ya Gotta Start Somewhere Published September 22, 2017 As President-elect last fall, Donald Trump didn’t exactly have the kindest of words for the United Nations. In one of his daily Tweets, he wrote that the UN has “such great potential,” but it has become “just a club for people to get together, talk and have [...]
One At A Time, Please Published September 16, 2017 When you make an attempt to comment on events in the world every week, there are occasional instances when you take a look around and can’t really find a single thing of interest on which to opine. Such is not the case this go-round. Epic hurricanes [...]
Offers Too Good To Pass Up? Published September 8, 2017 The guy in North Korea is apparently really still ticked off that people keep making fun of his haircut. Hurricane Irma is intent on showing up Harvey. And Congress is back in session. You would think those three things alone would be enough to worry [...]
Putting Problems on a Pedestal? Published September 1, 2017 Let’s say you were an alien (the outer space kind, not an illegal border-crosser), and you secretly landed on planet Earth in the middle of the good ol’ USA this past week. (Not even the folks in Roswell, New Mexico, saw you arrive.) In order to [...]
Nice While It Lasted Published August 25, 2017 “Get yer T-shirts. Get your Eclipse T-shirts here.” If you ventured anywhere within about 50 miles either side of the Totality Band on Monday, you may well have heard a vendor hawking his wares up and down the road or rest stop or grassy field where you [...]
Want To Be Busy? Schedule Some Time Off. Published August 18, 2017 Let’s just say, for the moment, that you are Donald Trump. I know that’s an anathema to some, but this is just pretend. Even though you’re on a working vacation on the Jersey shore and NYC, the world doesn’t seem to care much [...]
