YET ANOTHER CONFRONTATION WITH NATIVE AMERICANS… (…and their rights to control what happens on their lands) On the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota there is an ongoing confrontation happening there between Native Americans of the Lakota (Sioux) tribe, and
TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE…THAT IS THE QUESTION… (and for whom…if you please?) We hear a lot of grumbling about how terrible our choices are for President in the upcoming election for that office in November. Neither candidate from
THIS NATIONAL ANTHEM CONTROVERSY… (was a media generated one because it gave one individual’s agenda a grandstanding play) Much of the public furor about a football celebrity’s refusal to stand when the national anthem was played would not have occurred
THE RIO DE JANIERO OLYMPICS (…games for many…and some fun just for some…) The 2016 Summer Olympic Games seem to have started off without a hitch despite a lot of anxieties and misgivings about them…Brazil’s economic and political problems…pollution problems…non-functioning
WRONG HEADED COMMENTS ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT… (…apparently prove that ignorance is bliss when it becomes an issue) Donald Trump’s recent comments about the second amendment…if Hillary is elected the judges she’ll appoint will do away with it…show that he’s
EVERYONE IS DOING IT…DOING IT… DOING IT… (…hacking…the devil’s spawn of our digital universe…) Hacking is here to stay. Everyone is doing it…doing it…doing it…the devil’s spawn of our digital universe, much like a pandemic of cyber wars raging without
AND NOW…THE LEANING TOWER OF ‘FRISCO… (…a grandiose model of excessive wealth display…with feet of clay) Back in the days of the Italian Renaissance, the civic leaders of Pisa decided to commission the construction of a “campanile” of grandest style
IF WE REALLY WANT CHANGE…QUIT BITCHING AND START SWITCHING… (…and freak out all those pachyderms and jackasses…in the process) Our political duopoly has had its respective conventions. These are now both over, but have left both of their rank and