Full disclosure: I have watched less than an hour of NFL football this season. So take what I have to say with that in mind. I don’t have any idea what happened yesterday in the NFL. I don’t suppose they played the games in light of the shooting in Texas earlier that morning that left…
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Darkness and Wonder in the City of Lights: Paris
Just spent ten days in Paris. It’s a wonderful city and my favorite destination even though flying internationally is hardly a joy. Most poignant memory of it is the last night I was there. I was coming back around 10 p.m. from sitting outside at the La Rotonde brasserie on Rue du Montparnasse and turned…
“I Like to Be in America” Trump and the Puerto Rico Crisis
How many know that when we took over Puerto Rico we changed the name of the place to Porto Rico? We put it under the command of the Army whose leaders found the new name easier to spell. That was during the Spanish-American War when we liberated Cuba and gave it to the Cubans to…
You Fight 16 Years and What Do You Get
Apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Lyrics to 16 Tons You fight 16 years and what do you get, Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter please help us ‘cause you want to know, The generals plan to continue the show. The President Trump says we are going to fight on to victory. The…
The Deep State: Do You Like It? Do You Hate it?
I have to admit I did not know about the Deep State until the last couple of months or so. It seems to be something that washed up on shore along with the Trump Administration. All I seemed to know of it was that it is so well buried that people like me cannot see…
Let Them Stand! Understanding Monuments
Hard not to have thoughts about the many situations roiling our country. One is the “tear down Confederate monuments” uproar that follows on the Confederate flag brouhaha of some years back and the Charlottesville Tiki march of a few days ago. One thought incorporated into supporting their removal is to note that “the vast majority…