Womb to Tomb What do you call a political doctrine that is adamantly pro-life then, after birth, reverses itself? How can anyone be quick to criminalize abortion while simultaneously displaying a morbid affinity for death; at...
Read MoreThe Anthropocene The Age of Man. You can also refer to it as the Age of Now. This includes the Age of Pollution — man’s influence on the unnatural warming of the earth. Plus the Age of Over Population and the challenges...
Read MoreAfter COVID A year ago when my wife and I first learned of COVID-19 we immediately began preparations for a limited, but necessary period of self-isolation. Yes, we were concerned, curious, compliant, but stubbornly optimistic....
Read MoreThe Enemy: COVID and Them My wife and I have been isolating since the first week in March. Nine months and counting. When we venture out, we wear masks, use hand sanitizers and glove up when pumping gas. I know we’re not...
Read MoreGNP: The Grand New Party It’s time. I supported T Rump’s candidacy for a year; from its onset in June, 2015, until June, 2016, when he accused Judge Gonzalo Curiel of bias in the Trump University fraud case on account of the...
Read MoreI’m living in the Middle Ages. To T Rump, that’s anyone aged thirty-five to fifty. I’m speaking of a time when Charlemagne, King Arthur, the Byzantine, Ottoman and Holy Roman Empire’s, the Vikings, the Great Famine...
Read MoreI Wish I Had a Talking Dog Sorta. In the time of COVID, I’ve had lots of time to think about lots of things from the calamitous effects of climate change to the life enriching benefits of having a talking dog. Yes,...
Read MoreRecipes For Disaster I’m no chef, short-order cook and never was assigned KP duty in the military. But I do know that not all instructions and ingredients apply to food. I have learned from the world around me what results...
Read MoreIf Kids Could Vote Remember the Pre-Revolutionary War chant, “Taxation Without Representation”…and what those three words presaged? Imagine you live in COVID America and are too young to vote, but your life...
Read MoreMagnificent Mosaic Sheltering at home has given me the time to stay current with the insidious spread of the “2019 Influenza”, aka COVID-19. I’ve witnessed some interesting, empirically verified, truths. More than half of all...
Read MoreThe Siberian Candidate In a bizarre twist of art imitating life, two politically inspired movie classics have been reprised as episodic reality shows. They appear in real time, every day and they converge in both plot and lead...
Read MoreForgive Me My Trespasses Forgiveness is a fundamental tenet of Christianity. A Christian asks to be forgiven their trespasses (their sins), and those who trespass against them. We all sin and it’s important to acknowledge our...
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