THE DORMANT LEGACIES OF WAR (…are those that remain unvoiced…since these are much too costly to be acknowledged) With Memorial Day coming up shortly (well, observed by some…but largely ignored by many these days), we can expect to see and
WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING AWRY… (…women’s fashions tend to swing towards sassy exhibitionism) Much of the world seems to be going to hell in a hand basket these days. Nothing but toil and trouble everywhere…folks facing starvation in
ON HER MAJESTY’S BIRTHDAY (…it’s nice to see a contemporary who, much like a great wine…has aged so well) It’s Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, and, Francophile though I may be, it’s nice to see a contemporary who,
HOW FREE- MARKET IS OUR ECONOMY? (…much depends on what …free…means) All our career politicos, solemn pundits and experts of one kind or another, not to mention our media hordes, keep spouting the same shopworn shibboleth about how America owes
TEMPUS IS DEFINITELY FUGIT-ING (…as more somewhat contemporary cohorts fade away) We’re beginning to feel like a tall lonesome pine tree left standing in solitary grandeur in the middle of a clear-cut patch of forest land. Or so it seems,
LET’S BECOME AMERICANS…FIRST…AGAIN (…and something else…second) Over the past fifty years we have allowed the alien un-American concept of – political correctness – to progressively infect this country much like an insidious virus. A virus which continues to undermine the
NANO-SECOND HUSTLERS…GAMING THE MARKET (…by weaving Charlotte Webs of Deceit and Skim) The current uproar about high-frequency trading, besides producing books about it, is also sparking both legislative and law enforcement interest, and launching a number of investigations into the
THE CLIMATE CHANGE PROCESS (…is a dynamic cyclical one…oscillating between warm and cool…) The latest broadside in the climate change/global warming battle has just been fired by the United Nations’ -IPCC – (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on the
APRIL FOOLS (…using their political positions for illicit gains…) The recent arrest and indictment of California’s State Senator Leland Yee, along with several dozen others involved with him as well, on Federal gun dealing, drugs, pay-for-political-favors, and other charges, including
RENEWING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE ANACHRONISM OF NATO (…as the root cause of today’s crisis with Russia) A few years after the dust had settled from the collapse of the former Soviet Union, and Russia seemed to have transformed itself