GEORGE JONES… (one of those iconic sounds of Country music) Every era has its iconic sounds of music, in the different genres of it. George Jones was one of those iconic sounds of Country music. The definition of –Country –
A NEW PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY (…with five Presidents and First Ladies all in a row) The new George W. Bush presidential library was dedicated the other day…with five Presidents and First Ladies…all in a row. It’s this kind of ceremonial occasion
MAYBE MALTHUS FIGURED IT RIGHT (…long before the eco-evangelicals came to town) Global warming is a fact…a cyclical fact, one which has been going on since the creation of our planet. In the last million years, our world has gone
SOMETIMES I WONDER WHY…. (all such hard knocks have to come in clusters) The events of the past couple of weeks seem to have come at us much like a …cluster bomb. First, on a personal level, a long time
THIS BOSTON MASSACRE… (…is of greater infamy) We seem to be living in an era of sick minds. Minds so twisted and warped they think indiscriminate mayhem and slaughter are a valid means of self-expression. This Boston massacre is of
AN IRON LADY (…clad in the steel of principled resolve) Lady Margaret Thatcher is gone. For those of us who were her contemporaries her demise only brings us to the realization that our stream of history…inevitably keeps flowing onwards. Others
HON’ Y SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (…forcing sequestration of our common everyday vocabulary) Present Obama’s recent offhand comment about a fellow female politico being “good looking” apparently set off an uproar of indignation from a horde of folks bent
PLAYING CHICKEN WITH A NORTH KOREAN DINGBAT (…is dangerous because he may not know how or when to…blink) North Korea’s Kim Jong Eun’s recent behavior seems downright irrational, if not insane, from our point of view, but, apparently, not from
CALIFORNIA’S PROPOSITION 8 (…don’t the IX and X Amendments mean anything anymore?) Some years ago the voters of California adopted a system for placing – Measures- and –Propositions – on the ballot as a means of bypassing Legislature obstructionism for
CYPRUS…ON THE ROCKS (…facing a cocktail as bitter as the one Socrates drank) Cyprus has had a very turbulent history and the EU’s bailout terms are just adding another wild chapter to that history. After a relatively peaceful and prosperous