Can Trump Be Beaten? A Much-Too-Soon Analysis
Every time I feel that Joe Biden will win in November, every time I sense that perhaps Trump can actually be beaten, maybe even trounced, I bite my tongue and...
Surviving the Plagues We know as Trump & COVID
The other day I found myself beseeching God for an explanation of why he has brought two plagues, Trump and COVID, down upon us, and I realized that this sort...
Boston Sports Are Returning: Some Predictions, Guaranteed to be Right (!?)
Can it possibly be that soon all four of Boston’s major pro sports teams will be in action? Could the Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins actually begin to produce real...
Back from the Future with the Election Results
Thanks to the wonders of time travel, I have been just returned from the future, Wednesday, November 4, 2020, one day after the US Presidential election. And as they say...
Shades of Gray
This morning as I attempted to inform myself about some of the crazy things that are happening in the world, I came across a report that caught my attention, of...
Misinformation (??)
Our intrepid leader, Donald Trump, tells us daily that we are bombarded with misinformation, with fake news via ultra-liberal and totally inaccurate sources such as the New York Times, the...
Judging Trump by His Appointees
We should all be thankful for Donald J. Trump’s policy of finding temporary employment for out-of-work and incompetent ne’er-do-wells. Think of how the unemployment rolls would have swelled if poor...
Trump & Compassion: Words, Meaning, and Manipulation
An emergency meeting of Republican election strategists was convened recently. This pack of well-paid masters of spin was called in and told to go into panic mode, as for once...
Why Trump Is Incapable of Being a Healer
Each one of us has a world view that we bring to our everyday behaviors. It is so much a part of us that we are not even consciously aware...
A Recipe for Disaster
I went way back into my old recipe files, locating yellowed and dust-covered index cards from the 1960’s, with all the ingredients for a pie full of nation-wide protests and...