Tough Guys I’m a tough guy most of the time, but a tender guy at other times. I’m big and burly and I ride big motorcycles and have been the breadwinner for several families worth of dependants. That and the fact that I survived forty-five years in the top ranks of Wall Street, one of the tough guy arenas, makes me fit the tough guy profile. Buy I cry at sad movies and have a…
Dizzy Disney Today Kim takes daughter Carolyn, her husband John, granddaughters Charlotte and Evelyn, as well as sister-in-law Lisa to Disneyland. Carolyn and her family will stay for three days while Kim and Lisa return after one day of Disney overdose. Carolyn and her family are addicted to Disney as much as anyone can be. She and John got engaged at Disney World and they have each spent milestone birthdays there (she at 30 and…
The Kids are All Right In 2010 there was a movie that may have missed your screen. It was with Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo and it was called The Kids are All Right. It is a story about three adults in a love triangle specifically because of two of them having parented a few kids who were coming of age. As America and the world ages day-by-day, I suspect we will get…
Weaponizing America It is a well knows phenomenon in modern psychology that people project their own issues onto others. The people who are most likely to steal are often the ones you have to watch like a hawk because they are inclined to larceny. There is little doubt in America who in the political spectrum is pro-gun. Republicans have set the Second Amendment ahead of all others. Their less than strict and very self-serving interpretation…
At Times Like This Seven years ago, in the midst of the 2016 presidential election, one of the comments about Donald Trump that got lost in the shuffle was that he would likely not be a steady and reliable leader in a crisis, especially a serious crisis that might involve nuclear weapons. The issue came up several times during his presidency like when he abruptly cancelled the Iran nuclear ban deal, started playing footsie with…
Blackhawk Down and Out I am watching Merrick Garland make a DOJ announcement about their investigation into the events surrounding the George Floyd killing and has concluded that the Minneapolis PD committed civil rights violations on a rather routine basis. His listing of the evidence of violations of those civil rights, the First Amendment, the American Disabilities Act and various other cultural guardrails is really quite eye opening. The one that jumps out at me…
Staying Loud I am here on the day after the indictment of Donald Trump on 37 federal criminal counts ranging from conspiracy to obstruct justice (one of Trump’s specialities) to willful retention of national defense information (not to mention sharing national defense secrets to unauthorized persons). Meanwhile a grand jury in Washington D.C. is hearing testimony from two fake electors from Nevada, which is part of the ongoing case by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith to…
Crossing the Line I voted for Ronald Reagan in both 1980 and 1984. I admit it and with the benefit of hindsight I think I contributed to the downfall of the liberal democracy that worked so well for our country from 1945 until 1980. I was actually more a fan of George HW Bush back in those days, but he didn’t have the momentous that Reagan had, so I stayed with the team and we…
Reparations The 2020 movie called Worth that stars such greats as Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci and Amy Ryan is about the valuing of lives lost in the 9/11 tragedy. It is a fascinating study in how professionals go about putting human lives into dollars and cents and it may be one of the more instructive stories to help us deal with the next great reparations issue, dealing with the compensation for African Americans who’s ancestors…
Going Down in Flames It is amazing to watch a bully getting surrounded by a pack of dogs and attacked relentlessly from all sides. The bully knows that the only thing that has kept him from self-destruction has been his bravado. He is getting described as a caged tiger who understands that he has nowhere to run. The tiger can’t help but be what it is and snarl to remind people who is the predator…