PANGS OF COLD WAR REFLUX DISEASE (from its last pawn still standing)
REMEMBERING PAST THANKSGIVINGS
GROPING FOR SECURITY (the friendly skies are getting way too friendly) It’s difficult to decide whether the latest security procedures implemented by our TSA are, indeed, serious efforts to make our air travel here in America even safer than before,
IT JUST TAKES POLITICAL RHETORIC TO DO NOTHING (but it takes political guts to do….something) Our recent – Second American Revolution – may have altered the political landscape, and rattled the cages of many career politicos in both of the
FACING THE AFTERMATH (means moving forward briskly – lest the past gain on us) If nothing else, this midterm election has shown that when the American electorate gets riled up – career politicos can, and do, find themselves unemployed, replaced
NEVER MIND MILLER….IT’S VOTING TIME! (it’s a serious occasion….so no mail-in procedure for me) Tomorrow, at the earliest I can bestir myself from my slumbers, I’m going to crank up and get ready for my usual ritual of getting primed
THE EPITOME OF LEADERSHIP (the real gold within the San Jose mine of Chile) The incredible ordeal of survival and rescue of thirty three miners entombed several thousand feet below the surface is a tribute to human endurance, courage, and
VOTING OFF-PARTY (if you don’t care for jackasses or pachyderms anymore) Among many folks who are registered, and actually vote, there seems to be the mistaken notion that they can only vote for candidates of either the Democratic or the
HOPES FOR A MEANINGFUL SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION (dissolving into the sound and fury of a tea party signifying….nothing) Earlier this year we saw and heard loud and heated outbursts from the mass of this country’s taxpaying voters. They were fed
IF YOU’RE STARVING IN SAN FRANCISCO (you might as well be sleepless – in Seattle) Few of our elected officials, or their apartnik coterie of bureaucrats, seem able to come up with a unitarian definition of….poverty. Poverty, however, is a