Reading time – 57 seconds . . . Three more high school children are dead and three more are in critical condition because a handgun was easy to obtain and was the preferred method of dispute resolution for yet another hurt/angry American. In the first year following the murders of 20 little kids and 7… [read more]
Our Greatest Hockey Game
Reading time – 59 seconds . . . The story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team is well known, both because of the 2004 movie Miracle and because if you were alive on February 22, 1980 you remember what happened, where you were and who was with you. It was one of those defining… [read more]
I Just Want You To Know . . .
Reading time – 57 seconds . . . The Forbes 400 was recently posted and we are told that the 400 richest people in America are worth about $2.29 trillion. That is more than the bottom 150 million Americans combined, or about half of all Americans. And that $2.29 trillion is up 13 5% over… [read more]
Crazy
Reading time – 67 seconds . . . I’m nearly through Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs and have a noggin full of takeaways. Jobs was a mercurial fellow, obsessive about detail and adamant in his views to the point that compromise was virtually impossible for him. A more than substantial driver of that was… [read more]
Backlash Quiz
Reading time – 127 seconds . . . Mohammed Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. In 1953 he was deposed in a coup d’état orchestrated by British MI6 and the American CIA, along with foreign oil firms. They established Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as the absolute ruler of Iran. That was a handy… [read more]
Commitment
Reading time – 19 seconds . . . We’re just past the 13th anniversary of 9/11 and, as in every year, there is much to remember. A part of that terrible day which you might not know about is recounted here in a Washington Post piece. Watch the video and read the post. You just… [read more]
Confession
Reading time – 111 seconds . . . I wasn’t a 60s radical. I wasn’t even politically conscious. In fact, I was essentially out to lunch regarding social and political issues. I missed the marches, the sit-ins, the banners, the demands for change, the chanting in front of the White House. Even Woodstock passed… [read more]
The Heavy Lifting
Reading time – 53 seconds . . . There are grayed-out Boomers working in organizations and sitting on committees focused on creating reform in America. Truly, some never lost their ’60s idealism. But what is happening now is nothing like what happened when we protested for an end to the war in Viet Nam, for… [read more]
The Playground
Reading time – 47 seconds . . . Boy, was I wrong. I grew up the same way everyone did. I was a kid. Adults were bigger. They were in charge. They knew stuff. They were really good at making a serious face. Parenthetically, as I write these words, I now wonder why I ever… [read more]
What We Need
Reading time – 126 seconds . . . Doris Haddock is not a well known name, but you might know her as Granny D. She saw clearly the corrupting influence of big money in our politics and on our country and determined to do something about it. To draw attention to this issue she set… [read more]
