Author: mtc9393

One thing I really, really, do not get is how many Americans who  have lives of leisure compared to others in in the world are so unhappy with their state of affairs. I got thinking about this over mother’s day weekend after reading lines such as these: “Yesterday their dreams were shattered. . . ….

You may have found it strange that I wrote about mother’s day yesterday  and the nice time that I had. Rarely do I venture into my personal doings with my family. Why then did I do it? Basically so that I will remember that there was a time when we had a day dedicated to…

I started yesterday off not the best way. I saw the mother of our children a couple of times before wishing her a happy mother’s day.  I figured she’d remind me of my tardiness later. We don’t exchange gifts on either that day or father’s day. She once said many years ago on the latter…

I was perusing Dante’s Inferno and I saw that the first place visited was called Limbo. Dante saw it: “as a pastoral setting of forests with green meadows, flowing streams, and tall castles. Figures like Ovid, Homer, and Aristotle live in Dante’s limbo, as does a parade of characters from Greco-Roman mythology, and even some Muslims,…

Once a member of the Trump party you begin to sleep with strange bedfellows. And, yes, the Republican Party as represented by true conservatives like Liz Cheney, George W. Bush and other Republicans who recognize Trump was soundly defeated in the last election – he received 8 million less votes than Biden – are now…

I guess what made me think of this is when I read a comment by Hutch. He punctured the balloon of the anti-abortionists who decry the taking of human lives without justification but do nothing about it other than lament, or perhaps write books. Hutch wrote:  “If there is all this murder going on why…