YES, THERE WAS A PIGEON PATRONIZING OUR COFFEE SHOP… (…proving some birdbrains do have…some smarts…) The streets of San Francisco are well cluttered with all sorts of cafes and coffee shops of one kind or another, from the high-end pretentiousness
WHALE WAYS (…and what our mystical connections with them might be) This one is a sidebar, as a time-out break from all those other worrisome events which keep swirling around us every day…and to write instead about certain events concerning
IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO, BUT… (…even if you live longer, you can still prosper…maybe) In an article recently published in the –Atlantic – magazine, a Dr. Zeke Emmanuel declared his viewpoint that neither we, nor medical science, should spend so
RESOLVING THE SYRIAN-ISIL CONUNDRUM… ( will require a bi-polar…not a mono-polar approach to succeed.) President Obama’s international coalition to sustain an intensive air-strike campaign against ISIL in Iraq, and now Syria, amounts to a stop-gap measure, and does not do
RECONCILING ANY ONCE-UPON-A-TIME DREAMS OF INDEPENDENCE (…with those existentialist imperatives-of-the-now realities) Scots, of –wha’ha’e wi’ Wallace bled – persuasions, were all primed to have their recent referendum turn back the clock of some three hundred years of history to regain
ONE OF THOSE LASTING IMPACTS (…on our national consciousness) This was the thirteenth year of our commemorating the attacks on our homeland in 2001. Attacks which remain vividly etched in our minds, as a still raw emotional wound even after
WE’RE STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE… (…kinda….) The President finally came forward with some kind decision about how to deal with ISIS/ISIL. He laid it all out in yesterday’s address to the nation. Not quite clear on how “strategic” his
CLOSING OUT THE JOAN RIVERS SHOW (…with a wham-bam-thank-you-m’am grand finale) Not many women celebrities manage to go from hot wild young chick to grand old broad with irrepressible style, verve, and wit to the very end. She did…and then
SOUNDING MUCH LIKE THE JAWBONING OF ASSES… (…and that ain’t the way Sampson did it) The Russia-Ukraine crisis rumbles on…and off…and on…and off. Another dismal example of what happens when – talk- is the only response to aggression. The problem
IF YOU’RE LIVING IN THE INTERNET’S CLOUD (…keep your nude selfies…to yourself) The latest hacking episodes by a collective of digital vandals, which not only targeted brand name big-box merchandisers, from which they pillaged potentially lucrative credit card and other