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HERE BE DRAGONS
February 11, 2025MERRY, SCARY CHRISTMAS
December 19, 2024Not a good year for a lot of us. Too many others voted for an illusion, a specter of “greatness” promised, that they may never see. Those seeking power tell people what they want to hear; Then the winners do what they want. For we who sought better, well, a terrible, no good, very […]
COULD THINGS BE WORSE?
March 15, 2024Freud said that mankind is a herd animal but added, “with a leader. But heaven help us when choosing whom to follow.
WAIT, IT’S GETTING WORSE
October 29, 2022There’s a saying: “Cheer up, things could be worse; so I cheered up and sure enough—things got worse.’ Bobby McFerrin’s decades-old ditty, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” won’t work now, if it ever did. There’s plenty of fright left over from Halloween–and in biblical proportions: war, famine, earthquake, pestilence, fires and either too much […]
WE DODGED A BULLET
December 31, 2020As history warns, democracy’s most lethal challenges come from within, not without. Donald Trump, until his ego thrust him into politics, presented himself to the world as a much different man: aggressive, yes, but charming and not a tad affably soft-spoken. Then he morphed into a monster: loud, insolent and name-calling–shedding hosts of public […]
ENTER LEVIATHAN
November 11, 2016To the chagrin of many, the most qualified presidential candidate in modern history has been denied her deserved place, and we’ve embraced incivility, mutual disrespect, xenophobia, denigration of women, and racial inequality—you know, all those things inappropriate to 21st-century world leadership. In a trice, we saw Donald blow the obligatory air-kiss as “everybody’s […]
CAN YOU SPELL “COMEUPPANCE”?
October 24, 2016Our long national nightmare of presidential debates is done. Donald Trump’s Rat Race is over—and the rat didn’t win. Indeed, he lost all three in the court of public opinion, regardless what some very partial pundits said. Enough people know a jerk when they see one, and god help those who don’t. It […]
SO CALM DOWN ALREADY
August 31, 2016[This was a column published in the Daily News just before Trump’s downfall in the polls] Political liberals are the worst of nervous nellies, ever fretting lest their world come to an end. This time they fret that Donald Trump will be elected in November. Not to say it can’t happen. Anything […]
TRUMP’S THIRD PARTY
March 22, 2016Ye who suffer the anguish of this presidential campaign: I feel not your pain. I’ve loved every moment of it—hoping Donald would sweep the GOP board and spout nonsense till his head blows up, which it will. A reminder: I never judge by poll results. You too can delve into websites […]
THE CLOWN CAR DE-RAILED
November 2, 2015Around coastal Georgia are what are known as frizzle-chickens, scruffy and battered-looking, ends of feathers twisted forward, and known for continuously scratching in the dirt. Earlier poor settlers, refugees from slavery, deemed the toil of such fowl as attempts to uncover evil spirits and expose them to sunlight, thereby killing them. After too […]
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