Being American I have a friend who has been trying very hard to create a theory that at our core all of us Americans are really more alike than different. I’ve heard him mention this theme several times now and then just recently he published a story that he sent to me and to several of our mutual friends who operate at the far more conservative end of the political spectrum. He genuinely wanted us…
Continuing Confusion It’s now been eight days since the dreaded debate that was heard around the world. The cycling of political emotions has been out of hand and continuously on everyone’s mind. What began as shock and awe turned immediately into taking sides. People on the right have stayed unusually quiet because they just can’t believe their own good fortune for the self-inflicted wounds being perpetrated by their opponents. First, Joe Biden shoots himself in…
Sleeping It Off It’s the morning of July 4th and I am bone tired. I actually have a decent reason for that. My daughter and her family of four flew in last night. It was late last night because while we reserved the flight more than four months ago, this is a big travel year as we read about more and more every day. Making up for COVID may be a part of it, but…
A Voice In The Wilderness Our copy of The Hidden Meadows News was in our mailbox when we got home and it was hard not to notice that Kim’s profile in the local gazette has risen to quite a noticeable level. She and her activities represent 3 out of the 8 pages of editorial coverage in our community and she is pictured 4 times. She was given credit for her “respected” co-leadership of the Garden…
Get Up, Joe I have not been in the habit of blogging continuously, but I feel that today has been a very interesting day and that it’s worthy of a bit more attention from me, whether anyone wants to hear it or not. After last night’s difficult debate performance, I struggled with the conversation on Morning Joe where I estimate that ⅔ to ¾ of the Democratic ratio pundits were talking about calling for Biden…
Why So Serious? I have a friend that is one of four of us on a text chain. We are all more or less the same age, ranging from 65 to 80, averaging at about 73. The youngest and the oldest are Republicans and voted for Trump each of the last two presidential elections, obviously successfully the first time and unsuccessfully in 2020, The other guy and I are both liberals, but I cannot say…
Existential Debate Kim and I are getting on a 6:30am flight to Philadelphia tomorrow morning. That means our day will start at about 3:30am and roll into an Uber pickup at 4:00. I’m sure we will get to the airport with time to spare, but one thing I have learned post-COVID is not to underestimate the resurgence of the American travelers once you’ve kept them down for a while on the COVID farm. I think…
Gun Control Among political hot button issues in the United States, it is hard from one day to the next to know which are the hottest buttons. Yesterday it was abortion because of the Supreme Court ruling on Mifepristone. That unanimous ruling has not ended the controversy altogether because all it did was establish that the plaintiff lacked standing because they were not either users or prescribers of Mifepristone. Strangely enough, that “none-of-your-fucking-business” defense is…
The Irony of Hunter We have all just heard about the conviction of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. This has been a long saga that really began in the middle of Trump’s presidency. Republicans and Democrats alike were screwing around in Ukraine in between the first assault on that sovereign nation in Crimea by Putin’s Russia in 2014 and their more recent and more widespread incursion into the eastern third of Ukraine in 2022. Yes,…
Just Be Cuz The top of my head has been blown off by the Trump convictions yesterday, but I am weirdly not inclined to spend much time writing about it, perhaps because so much has already been said and written about it and also because it is so startling that it has taken 77 years for a guy with Trump’s despicable lack of character to have his comeuppance. The one thing I am inclined to…