Reading time – This guest essay is longer than typical Disambiguations & worth it. Grab a second cup o’ Joe and settle in for some thinking . . . Following a recent post about a Wall street guy who supports Bernie Sanders I received a private email from boyhood pal Frank Levy (boyhood nickname: Skip)…. [read more]
Trump and Us
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . There is only one reason I would give any e-ink to Donald Trump. It isn’t to examine and refute the flamboyant, xenophobic, homophobic, baseless, factless, insulting, unconstitutional (see cartoon tweet below) things he’s saying. That’s being handled to excess by our broadcast people. In fact, yesterday I… [read more]
An Open Letter to the 114th Congress
Reading time – 57 seconds; viewing time – 3:00 . . . Here are five easy points and one hard one for legislators: Nobody thinks it’s a good idea for violent criminals to possess firearms. Nobody thinks it’s a good idea for mentally unstable or mentally challenged people to possess firearms. Almost nobody thinks it’s… [read more]
Occam’s Razor Flipped
Reading time – 57 seconds . . . NOW IN VIDEO! Ed. note: Be sure to read the P.S. at the end – it’s not in the video. What you don’t know about Paul Ryan – no, not that one – the other one – the main guy at Hayfield Financial in New York –… [read more]
Trust
Reading time – 47 seconds; viewing time – 2:23 . . . Thirty-five years ago we learned that the nine most frightening words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan told us that over and over as he campaigned to become president of the United States,… [read more]
Be Grateful
Reading time – 27 seconds; viewing time – 1:41 . . . When the sun is shining, be grateful for its energy, its beauty and the life it gives. When the storms come, be grateful for their energy and the cycle of water that keeps us alive. When the politicians blather idiotically and incessantly, be… [read more]
Keep Heart
Reading time – 46 seconds . . . We Americans have a short little attention span. Does anyone remember the terrible floods in the desert country of Oman in June or the floods in Los Angeles 3 weeks ago or the students who were killed at Umpqua Community College in Oregon just last month? Our… [read more]
This Is My Country
Reading time – 3.5 minutes; viewing time – 8:15 . . . Necessary preface: This offering has been scheduled for quite a while and has been pushed back until today because of more pressing issues. Now we have a most pressing issue, the unholy slaughter of innocents in Paris on Friday night. Almost oddly, that… [read more]
Issues Separation Anxiety Disorder – v2.0
Reading time – 70 seconds . . . Boyhood pal Frank Levy offered a comment to last Sunday’s blog, Issues Separation Anxiety Disorder, focused on how Republicans work to divide Americans. His question is worthy of consideration and comment. Here is what he wrote: I don’t have a comment, only a question – what is… [read more]
Issues Separation Anxiety Disorder
Reading time – 77 seconds . . . I heard a comedian explaining that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who laugh and those who make people laugh. Hard to argue with that. And it turns out that there are always two kinds of people in the world. For cabbies it’s… [read more]
