Update on: The Two Bags of Robert Mueller Like the proverbial cat, Robert Mueller has nine lives. Every time it looks like justice has caught up with him, he escapes to reign another tyrannical day. This time it was the Supreme Court that saved his bacon. On June 20, the Court issued […]
Month: June 2017
The Two Bags of Robert Mueller: Does the Hero Have Clay Feet?
According to Aesop, every man is born with two bags around his neck: a small bag full of someone else’s faults and a large bag filled with his own. Robert Mueller has emerged as America’s newest super hero. Although he has not yet been nominated for canonization (you have to be […]
Our Veterans Deserve Better Care than Old Glory
“In honor of Flag Day…bring your worn American flags and drop it into the special receptacle. Thanks to our local Boy Scouts, VFWs, military organizations and American Legions for their help in properly retiring all collected American flags” […]
Drug Companies: Killing Americans in the Name of Profits
(FOR A QUICKER SHORTER READ SCROLL DOWN TO THE BLUE FONT) Know how you can tell when an empire is going to hell? When its future depends on a bunch of junkies. Too harsh a judgment? Read on. Quality of life issues abound in today’s America. Lead poisoning causing irreversible brain damage to thousands of […]
America’s Biggest Export: Perpetual War
(For a quicker shorter read scroll down to the BLUE FONT) More than two hundred years ago Edward Gibbon gave nations with imperial designs the best advice they ever managed to ignore. “There is nothing more contrary to nature than the attempt to hold in obedience distant provinces.” Talk about the Cassandra syndrome (valid warnings […]
So You think You Own that Chevy Sitting in Your Driveway? Think Again
It’s a red-letter day for you. Staring in wonderment at that precious title to your new car (well, maybe it’s not so new now) that has taken you 5 years to own. But the car is finally yours, the loan company relinquished their part-ownership when you sent in your last payment. That title is your […]
He Said, He Said, He Said, He Said: Trump and the Long Line of Presidential Shape Shifters
All Presidents Lie. In the transition from candidate to president-elect to new president to established president, crowd-pleasing, vote-getting promises are usually the first to go. Promises that had seemed baked into the cake suddenly become inspirational as in “We’re going to do our darndest, folks, but you know those (opposition party) in Congress are […]
America Gets Her Grouch On (AGAIN)
It should come as no surprise to “tweeters,” internet readers, and television devotees that the American taste for light comedy and objective journalism has been replaced by a rapacious, “take-no-prisoners,” mentality. In the age of Trump, this development has evolved in accord with the rise and fall and rise again of the Trump phenomenon. First […]
