THEY SAID WARMING WOULD LAST TILL HELL FREEZES OVER… (…but then…oops…hell did just that) The latest polar vortex event, which put most of the country into a very deep freeze, under tons of snow and ice, may be a harbinger
A BEIJING POWER-POINT EXTRAVAGANZA (… so…eat your heart out…Hollywood!) The recent summit conference in China was a Beijing power-point extravaganza rivaling anything seen in those multitudes of award “shows” we have over here…so…eat your heart out…Hollywood…that mob over there really
MAKING OUR OWN VETERANS DAY… (…since others only observe it if it doesn’t interfere with a normal work day) Like many other aspects of modern day life, meaningful observance of a traditional occasion such as -Veterans Day- is passé. God
CRYING THE BLUES…WHILE KNEE DEEP IN A FLOOD OF RED… (…even though a lot of green was spent to prevent it…) The aftermath of these mid-term elections has left a lot of folks in shock. Some, especially those who are
IT’S ELECTION DAY…KINDA (…but the way both parties have campaigned about it…not clear if we’re suppose to vote -AGAINST- something, or- FOR- something…or some such. It’s hard to tell.) There was a time when Election Day, even for a mid-term
BASEBALL…THAT GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME (…avidly followed by many, by others…not so much) My interest in baseball never really had a chance of developing. First, because my childhood was spent in France, where they had hardly ever heard of it, and
NEW STYLE FUN AND GAMES UNDER THE WARM CALIFORNIA SUN… (…so it’s all technology’s fault…) It seems that California’s women have readily taken to all the bells and whistle features this digital world of ours offers, and are now using
EBOLA (…a latter-day plague turned loose on a globalized world…) We can’t help but ponder on what further pronouncements we may get from all those pundits of medical science, about how and why this virulent viral infection continues to show
MYOPIC NATIONAL AGENDAS BLOCKING EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC EFFORTS (…as the US and Turkey just tiptoe further into the fray with only band-aid support…) The ISIS/ISIL wildfire continues to rage with little or no containment, much less any real signs of it