election year

IT’S THE WILDEST ELECTION YEAR YET AND THE ONLY EXPLANATION IS… (…that some people’s beliefs about the reasons for it are no weirder than any others…) People have all sorts of beliefs of one kind or another, especially when they

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A BIT OF COMIC RELIEF… (…from this year’s political combats…) The American political process, especially during a presidential election year, is much given to extremes of political posturing and wild rhetoric denigrating any opponent’s character, integrity, and qualifications for that

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THE STATE OF THE UNION (a valedictorian expression of hope for the future) The President’s last state of the union address to Congress was mostly a valedictorian expression of hope for the future…and not much else beyond that. At times,

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