TO BE OR NOT TO BE… (…endangered…or just…threatened) There appears to be a growing tiff between some folks in Florida about the manatee. Some think that because of protections established some years ago for this docile bovine-tempered sea creature its
COMING UP SHORT… (…because the rice-bowl syndrome got in the way) President Trump’s strong-arm efforts notwithstanding the Republican led House could not deliver on his campaign promise to repeal Obama Care and replace it with something supposedly “better.” While former
HAS NORTH KOREA BECOME AN ASYLUM RUN BY BI-POLAR INMATES… (…aiming for another round of aggression?) Ever since the end of WWII, when we and our erstwhile Soviet Russian wartime allies partitioned the Korean peninsula for occupation purposes, much in
TODAY’S POPULIST PIPERS… (leading folks away just as the one of old did at Hamelin) We doubt many people today recall the story about the Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was a cautionary tale about what happens when leadership fails
IT’S ST. PATRICK’S DAY… (…with fond recollections about one if his less saintly namesakes) Just a few short years after the end of WWII, a more way-back time than we care to admit, we were a brand new “Recruit” in
IT’S TRULY TIT FOR TAT ALL THE WAY FOLKS… (…and now it’s the Democrats’ turn to piss on the Republicans’ parade) There’s nothing more ridiculous than having to watch supposedly smart political types engage in what amounts to a useless
RUSSIA, RUSSIA…RUSSIA… (…fixating on finding a “Russian Connection”) If ever anyone needed further proof that politics, as we practice them here in America, are just as dirty a tit-for-tat game as can be found anywhere else in the world, the
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL… (…who’s the faux-new-iest of them all?) In the latest escalation of his war with the news “media”, Mr. Trump’s calling it an “enemy of the people” shows that were it not for our Constitution he
ECO-EVANGELICALS AND LATTER-DAY FLAT-EARTHERS HAVE IT WRONG… (…because both act like two donkeys braying over one pile of hay) We have no claims to either academic or scientific credentials or expertise about the subject of climate change, and global warming
IS THE TRUMP BILLIONAIRES’ CLUB THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION… (…to fix what needs fixing in America)? Despite a post-election chorus of doom and gloom naysaying from the sidelines, it looks like we Americans decided to take a flying leap of faith