I keep hearing people say, when describing our current reality of random and often brutal sweeps based on ethnic characteristics, when we see masked thugs roaming our streets searching for “law breakers, […]
Year-end columns usually highlight the high points. What to do with a year that is an accumulation of “low points?” If “Comedy is tragedy plus time,” this could be a very funny […]
Year-end columns usually highlight the high points. What to do with a year that is an accumulation of “low points?” If “Comedy is tragedy plus time,” this could be a very funny […]
Some graffiti vandals spray walls with paint from cans. Trump spreads his name with gold plated signs on buildings. Trump’s need to rename places, programs and institutions by inserting his own name […]
“Is this the end of Little Caesar?” Trump’s Titanic ego hit an iceberg last night (November 4) in the off off-year election of 2025. It wasn’t gigantic as icebergs go but it […]
The violation of the White House (standing in for our democracy) and the Louvre are perfect symbols and metaphors for the wanton destruction of our sacred historic institutions. These violations have much […]
Pastor Martin Niemoeller famously wrote, “First they came for the socialists, but I was not a socialist, so I said nothing.” Any allusion to Pastor Niemoeller instantly summons the history of how, […]
The Supreme Court yesterday (September 8, 2025) threatened to put a knife into the very heart of what gives this nation any claim even to aspire to exceptionalism by allowing race, ethnicity […]
Once upon a time, possibly this very time, Americans believed that lemmings threw themselves off cliffs in a kind of unspoken but intentional suicide pact. We believed this because Walt Disney, in […]
As a writer and teacher, I am accustomed to having my ideas, thoughts, words, motives and sometimes character questioned. I normally welcome being put into a position of questioning my beliefs and […]
