SUPER BOWL FIFTY… (celebrating a golden anniversary with a privately sponsored street party) The NFL just celebrated its golden anniversary with a privately sponsored street party. It did so with a promotional hype and marketing campaign rivaling in extravagance anything
INCOME INEQUALITY IS THE EPITOME OF THE AMERICAN DREAM… (…because everyone is seeking to achieve it) There’s a lot of yammering these days about “income inequality”, with most of the screeching about it coming from presidential wannabe’s who think that
A DISQUALIFYING LACK OF PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER… (…from persistent use of first person singularities…and peevish personal animus) Regardless what the polls might say, or what outcomes result from of either the Iowa or New Hampshire primaries, Donald Trump continues to display
HOLDING A BIT OF REAL HISTORY IN OUR HANDS… (…seems a more meaningful thread of connectivity than anything provided by today’s technologies) This is the time of year when we go through an annual ritual of rummaging through a trove
IN THE CONTINUUM OF HUMAN AFFAIRS… (…it’s that constant seesaw between cultural progression and cultural regression which causes conflicts) The world’s condition today seems to be one of never-ending economic, cultural, and political conflicts and upheavals of one kind or
THE STATE OF THE UNION (a valedictorian expression of hope for the future) The President’s last state of the union address to Congress was mostly a valedictorian expression of hope for the future…and not much else beyond that. At times,
AN EXECUTIVE MOVE TO BRING GUN VIOLENCE DOWN TO A DULL ROAR… (…is a well-meaning but misdirected aim at the wrong target…) The President’s recent emotional pitch about gun violence in America, and his public announcement that he plans to