Seeing Past the Paper
The phone rang and the call was from someone I have been doing business with for many years. My mind was on something else and I was in...
To Bernie’s Battalions
So it’s all over and Hillary is the nominee and even Bernie Sanders has endorsed her, in spite of the revelations about the Democratic...
Beyond the Bullets
I apologize for not blogging for the last few weeks. Perhaps I just ran out of things to write about for a while. Perhaps it just took a...
The Bathroom Monitors
Many years ago, a friend of mine was running for an office in an organization we both belonged to. As a joke, one of the credentials she...
Cruzing Toward Theocracy?
I have always thought that Ted Cruz is the most dangerous person in the current sorry crop of presidential candidates. Unfortunately, the...
Shucks! No Battle of the Billionaires?
Well, it could have been fun. Bloomberg said he might run for President on his own, especially if the nominees were Trump and Sanders....
Thai Food, Donald Trump, and the American Dream
A few nights ago I got a valuable lesson about politics and economics in one of the last places I would have expected it. My wife and I...
Gender, Grammar, and Transcending Boundaries
Today I had lunch with a good friend who is gender queer. How’s that again? “Gender queer.” This is a term used increasingly by people...
After Iowa
So the Iowa caucuses are over and attention is on New Hampshire, and it would probably be smart to wait until after that to try to make...
Making Sense of the World
Before Christmas, I posted something on Facebook about how both the religious and secular sides of Christmas bring a message of joy and...