A CLEAR CASE OF…L’ETAT…C’EST MOI… (…and keep that Congress and Constitution stuff out of his way) At one point during the 2016 presidential campaigns we characterized Mr. Trump’s candidacy as being that of…a man who would be Caesar…but we were
IT MIGHT JUST BE AN INVITATION TO ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC GAVOTTE.. (…and may not otherwise achieve any kind of meaningful outcome) Even when it occurs in its most byzantine and convoluted form, diplomacy generally is preferable to outright conflict, especially if
ON BECOMING ANTIQUE (or…never use the word…old…in front of an old person) There are moments when I can’t help but wonder…am I still relevant to the daily hustle and bustle that surrounds me? The answer to such a question is,
REFLECTIONS ON PRESIDENTS’ DAY (…and our abandonment of the ideals they tried to set for us) Old George and Honest Abe must be rolling in their graves about what we have become as a society and nation today, having apparently
MISDIRECTED CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT TO DO… (about episodes of depraved indifference to mass murder and slaughter) As usual everyone, from the President on down to local authorities and politicos, focuses on the wrong end of the stick whenever another horrid
MAKING A PARTHIAN-STYLE BOW SHOT… (over the rump end of our horse…as we shift our sights to other things) For the past sixteen years, seven of them from the platform of this site, we’ve produced a series of commentaries offering
CLOSING OUT ANOTHER…ANNO HORRIBILIS… (and hoping that this next one will be slightly less so…) Not much we can say about this past year of 2017 other than…we’re glad we’re able to be closing out another…anno horribilis…and hoping that this
IT’S THAT TRA-LA-LA TIME OF YEAR… (…again…) Perhaps it’s just because we’ve become too urbanized, and so long gone from all those old country ways of ringing in the Christmas festivities of former times, that we’re less enthused these days
FIDDLING WITH THE TAX RATES…DOES NOT REFORM MAKE… (…it’s just doing symptomatic medicine rather than going for a cure) Every twenty years or so, our career politicos’ reaction to the decibel level of taxpayers’ grumbles about the tax code, is