As the Republicans take their place to defend this craven fraud, this criminal beyond all defense, I am reminded that JFK loved Dante as much as Dr. King. Both cite the poet to remind us that courage takes its stand and that there is no neutrality in the face of evil. This is lesson lost…
I can’t condemn everything someone says just because I disagree with them nearly 100% of the time. It was George Will who reminded me once that to be an American means only to dedicate to the proposition—that it is not race, ethnicity, language, or any other criteria that frames the ideal. And it was David…
I was poking around the web looking for signs of the new Star Trek series that’s coming called Picard. Yeah, that might sound silly for a man my age but there’s a history. On September 8th 1966 when I was 9 years old the first episode of Star Trek aired and everything about the future…
The time is upon us. It has been but with impeachment now, it seems to me we have run out of ways to avoid it, again. I’m of the view that when we face the hard truths in life we stand a better chance of living with ourselves. I refuse denial or any of its…
I hope it’s appropriate to begin MLK Day celebrations by also making a connection to our American Founders and to Lincoln. We always need perspective to create a vision. To fathom what Dr. King was asking of us is to acknowledge the inexcusable failures of our American founding and yet to “conceive in liberty” who…
I don’t know where to put this thought or exactly how I feel about this comment. It’s a few days before Christmas and I spent the day visiting with my daughter. We made food and laughed and told stories and, as always, played some music and watched some old movies. There was a fine piece…