So Donald Trump 11 years ago made a few unsavory remarks about women to a guy named Bush who he thought was the only one who could hear him. And — SOMEHOW — there just happened to be an “open…
The conspiracy to ‘Dump Trump’
Kaepernick the ass, and a new anthem
This column is about a childish, spoiled football player who doesn’t know how wonderful he’s got it; and about the song that has inspired his nonsensical raving and disrespect of a national symbol. Colin Kaepernick, did you feel that you…
The ‘highest office’? Hillary’s not up to it
Hackin’ Hillary (cough, cough!) did a nose dive into her limousine during the 9/11 memorial services in New York City Sunday. “Over-heated,” her minions told the press. Yeah, those 75-degree, 39 percent humidity days are murder, aren’t they? Then, after…
Journeying toward Orthodoxy …
“Orthodox? Is that Jewish?” That’s the reply I’ve gotten, several times, from friends I’ve told that I’d like to convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church. And the question was usually accompanied by a puzzled frown that told me the friend…
Presidential race — then, possibly, revolution?
Many, many years from now, when our grandchildren have grandchildren of their own and people my age have been pushing up daisies for a long time, Americans will still be talking about this insane, unlike any before or since, presidential…
Black Americans having another ‘pity party’
“You White people don’t understand what it’s like to be black in America!” Two years after Ferguson, a longer time after Trayvon Martin, the shooting deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, followed by the massacre of five…
BREXIT may signal a coming revolution for America, too
Maybe 100 years from now they’ll be talking about June 23 as the British people’s “Fourth of July.” Because in a referendum on that date, the people of the UK voted that their answer to “EU” is “pee-u,” and they…
‘The Cute One’? How about ‘The Musical Genius’?
Paul McCartney: The Life, by Philip Norman — Little, Brown and Company. 2016 “The Cute One”? That’s how Philip Norman saw the Beatles’ Paul McCartney for many years. John Lennon was the brilliant, witty, edgy musical genius who was “three…
Transgenders and restrooms: Are they kidding?!
The Mulatto Messiah, drunk with power over the numerous presidential edicts he’s issued which the spineless Republican-led Congress has done absolutely nothing about, has now jumped with both feet into the current brouhaha about transgendered people — whatever THAT means…
Jacob and Marge: A match made ‘on the ground’
Jacob Schutte, a lonely bachelor farmer in the early 1900s, goes each Sunday to a different church to partake of the “dinner on the ground” offered to any with the 25 cents it costs to eat. On this particular Sunday,…
Jacob Schutte’s life was humdrum — until a Sunday surprise
This short story is based on my memories of an uncle of mine; on a reminiscence by my dad about his growing-up years, just at the time this story takes place; and on my memories of my own life. But…
‘Stop Trump’? Don’t think it’s gonna happen
OK, national GOP leaders: Everyone got their pistol loaded and ready? Good! Now, everybody aim their weapons down toward the floor. One, two, three, FIRE! BOOM! That exercise is called, “Shooting yourself in the foot.” And that’s just what the…
‘Poor Richard’ was a millionaire in wisdom
Benjamin Franklin, one of our most well-beloved Founding Fathers, never served as president of the United States. He was born too early (1706) so that by the time the first president (George Washington) was elected, Franklin was a frail 83…
Race hustlers scare Disney on ‘Song of the South’
The title of the movie was almost poetic: “Song of the South.” The actors were charming and believable — especially James Baskett as Uncle Remus, who became one of the best-known characters in American literature, partly via the 1946 Disney…
‘By his works, you shall know him …’
In just about two months — April 23, to be exact — the world will observe a double anniversary of the greatest literary man to ever live on this earth. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, on April 23,…
U.S. must return to ‘See the good in the world’
If you follow social media, or keep up with politics, as I do, you’re probably angry, frustrated, depressed, and wishing something — ANYTHING — would happen to break this cycle we seem to be stuck in. We’ve had our happy,…
Good-bye and good riddance, 2015!
This old year, 2015, has been a real doozy, hasn’t it? Most of us will feel a relief when it ends at midnight tonight. Well, at least, I will. But I suspect many, many would agree with me. The Islamic…
A Christmas angel in the house
This Christmas story will, I hope, show that sometimes, during the magic of the Yuletide season, people at odds with one another due to religious doctrine or other factors, can learn to “love thy neighbor,” as the Bible directs. ——…
Does America need The Man With No Name?
Are there really such things as “guardian angels” — people, or “beings,” who suddenly appear, mysteriously, at just the right place and time, to save human beings who have become too timid and cowardly to save themselves? If you’ve ever…
GOP can win this presidential race — IF …
The election clock is moving on, with less than a year now before we go to the polls and elect a new president of the United States. In this year of the outsider, the non-politician (witness Donald Trump, Dr. Ben…
We all can choose: Faith, or cynicism
Heard about the three atheists who walk into a bar? The first yells, “God damn, I’m thirsty! Give me a beer!” The second cries, “Jesus Christ! Where the hell is the bartender?” The third looks at them, dismayed, and says,…
Griffith’s epic film still outrages liberals
It was 100 years ago this past March — 1915 — that “The Birth Of A Nation” was released to American theaters. It was a landmark film on the American Civil War — or the War Between the States; and…