SYMPTOMS OF BANANA-REPUBLIC INFECTION (…are beginning to affect everyday America) Our country seems to be showing symptoms of banana-republic infection these days, and it’s beginning to affect everyday America. For one thing, voter anger and disgust at the political gridlock
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REFLECTIONS ON PRESIDENTS’ DAY (…and our abandonment of the ideals they tried to set for us) Old George and Honest Abe must be rolling in their graves about what we have become as a society and nation today, having apparently
THE BRICKBAT BRIGADES… (are always there ready to disrupt any of our collective ceremonial events) It’s a sad commentary on how much our –America the Beautiful- has declined in terms of general public civility and behavior when participating in important
INAUGURATION DAY BOYCOTTERS… (post-election sour grapes by those who really no longer believe in our American system) Regardless how anyone feels about how or why Mr. Trump ended up as President-elect of these United States, the fact is he was
ARE WE POOR LITTLE LAMBS… (…who have lost our way?) Democracy is one of the noisiest and messiest systems ever conceived for political association as a coherent whole. It’s noisy…because of the cacophony of individual voices all clamoring for attention
TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE…THAT IS THE QUESTION… (and for whom…if you please?) We hear a lot of grumbling about how terrible our choices are for President in the upcoming election for that office in November. Neither candidate from
TODAY’S SEA PEOPLES… (…a replay of an ancient story…in reverse) Some three thousand years ago or so the entire Middle East was shaken up and left in chaos, much as it is today. The cause, back then, seems to have