Whoever claims to bring good news at Yuletide or the New Year is a bearer of false hopes. Our choice is to get real or run from it. The news here and abroad is depressing, our only escapes are brief times of distraction and amusement, hence our preferred companions are movies and tv. So […]
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FRIENDS IN TROUBLED TIMES
January 27, 2024RISE OF PUNK POLITICS
August 5, 2023So here we are, hanging by a thread whilst hopes are endangered by a cultish frame of mind. How did we get here? Go back to 2009 and the notorious Town Hall meetings where folks inexplicably shouted at their elected reps and old goats wrestled the way old goats do—shoving and falling on […]
CHECK YOUR STATE FLAG AND SEAL
March 13, 2023(I did, and therein hangs a tale in Massachusetts. Read on what was said to my fellow citizens. You may wish to do the same where you live). There’s a sad, sorry history of our coming to these shores. Some strive to face and correct the injustices covered by such truth; others may care […]
TURKEY IN THE RAW
December 8, 2022Thanksgiving nears, an iconic time for family and all such traditions supposedly held dear. It was the occasion of another Big Lie many years ago which manifested three quarters of a century later as a demon of our generation—the demon of tobacco, which any thinking person at that time knew to be a killer. […]
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH VIOLENCE
June 30, 2022Another violation of humanity, another sacrifice of our children. Aside from the usual suspects of our finger-pointing, we do well to take a look within. “Swords into plowshares” is but a dream; the reverse is more the truth. We love violence. Young and old, most of what we see is found primarily in […]
THE CRUELEST MONTH: WHY?
June 30, 2022In like a lion, out like a lamb; make way for April showers and the promise of spring. Such is the month of March, named after the Roman god Mars, successor to Ares of the Greeks who began as an agricultural deity but became quarrelsome, leading to fights, which led to wars. Good choice […]
THE PANDEMIC AND ME
March 14, 2022The pandemic began and I was sure of one thing, but no idea other things were coming. I knew the virus would be around longer than expected but not that our national response would be outright resistance to good sense and the best science–that the war we would wage would be against each other, […]
NO LOVE FOR THE NFL
March 14, 2022February, though short in duration, began with the sage forecasts of Punxsutawney Phil, and ended with Presidents Day, to either of which we give little credence or importance. Between were days of racy, suggestive Valentines and of storefronts are sick with every shade of red. Time to love, because we say so. But […]
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS
January 14, 2022A navigator/explorer sets out with royal backing to find a passage to India, and comes nowhere near it. He disembarks far from his objective, sees brown-skinned people and cries, “Look! Indians!” From thence he is known as a great discoverer and the rest is a ball of twisted history. Columbus discovered nothing. He wandered […]
COAL IN OUR STOCKINGS
January 6, 2022A Christmas Meditation In old Depression times the above could have two meanings: for being so poor that a lump of coal (a precious commodity then) was all a kid could expect in a holiday stocking; or punishment for being bad before Christmas—both harsh lessons in life for youngsters. Today we’re putting it […]
Ichabod's Kin 