Lies ‘R Us “Lies ‘R Us” isn’t a big box store or a board game for death row inmates or even a brand of cosmetics for women over fifty. “Lies ‘R Us” is an invisible country. It’s been around for decades, but in an amorphous and...
Read MoreGroundhog Year My wife and I went into isolation a year ago after news of a deadly pandemic spreading across the country. We’ve been extraordinarily vigilant in our adherence to mitigation protocols—wearing masks, social...
Read MoreDay of Reckoning There’s a limit to how much one’s conscience can bear before it transforms from an unpleasant rumbling in your gut to a tsunami of outrage. I’m a white male with roots in the antebellum south. I’m also a child...
Read MoreTelling The Truth Isn’t Enough. I get it. The “whole truth” renders the truth incomplete. It’s like a mosaic that can only be understood in its totality. Individual tiles are true parts of the whole picture, but they reveal...
Read More“What Have You Got To Lose? We’ve heard that challenge before; in fact, it was made popular by a loser. A bigly loser. This time it’s not an insult aimed at the poor and dispossessed; nope, it’s a statement of support to the...
Read MoreStupider And Stupider. I love Texas. Texans. The Alamo. The Cowboys. NASA. Dallas. Houston. San Antonio. Austen…ad nauseam. I’m a southern neighbor. But, Texas politicians are a different breed. They appear...
Read MorePolitical Scientist, M. D. >> >> I was born to offspring of the Greatest Generation. My mother was a southern belle raised on a plantation in the Deep South and my father was an intellectual titan. After graduating...
Read MoreIf We’re At War… …and the enemy is COVID-19, what are the rules? Among a tsunami of lies that drowned our senses over the past four years, I recall the former guy boasting, “I am a war time president,” within the...
Read MoreNEVER CPAC In a world overrun with acronyms, we have to endure one more: CPAC. Conservative Political Action Conference. It functions under the aegis of the (get ready) ACU, American Conservative Union. Conservative...
Read MoreGlobally Righteous The world is flat. Or is it? If we’re talking economics, then it’s a small step for man to understand how competitive interests operate on a “level playing field” when money is the common denominator. Quid...
Read MoreTurn. Turn. Turn. I’m 73 and my life is a microcosm of the evolutionary scale. I was born and raised in the south. A Methodist. My life’s early experiences were defined by white friends, neighbors, schools and relatives. ...
Read MoreStupider And Stupider. I love Texas. Texans. The Alamo. The Cowboys. NASA. Dallas. Houston. San Antonio. Austen…ad nauseam. I’m a southern neighbor. But, Texas politicians are a different breed. They appear...
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