The Dance Card Gets Filled The notion of a dance card started in the Eighteenth Century, but it really came into vogue in Nineteenth Century Vienna. I always thought of it in regard to Gone With The Wind with the young Scarlett O’Hara with a small booklet looped to her wrist where the evening ballroom dances were listed and next to which she could write the names of the many beaus and potential suitors that…
And the Hits Just Keep On Coming It was shaping up like a bit of a horse race between Jack Smith and Fani Willis as to who was going to criminally indict Donald Trump first for his purported attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. In the past few days there has been a lot of speculation about Willis, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, and just how ready she was to bring her…
The Framers’ View I just saw Eric Holder, the ex-Attorney General under Barack Obama, responding to a question about all of the Donald Trump indictments and pending legal actions. That is the sort of question that is being asked of many many people these days, whether they are ex-government officials or just cable news pundits. One of the things that we have all been thinking about for the past six or seven years is the…
A Son is a Son When we were recently at the Lodge at Red River Ranch in Southern Utah, we had one evening when our plans to go stargazing got temporarily postponed due to a bull bison on the loose on the ranch grounds. The Lodge proprietor and general buffalo wrangler, Dave, was out with the cowpokes trying to do two things simultaneously. They needed to corral the young bull bison that had escaped its…
The Unholy Land Kim and I have traveled to Israel fairly extensively. It is certainly a fascinating ancient place with lots and lots of human cultural history and religious significance to at least three major religions representing the ideology of a majority of the world (57% by best estimates). Being one of the crossroad spots of human evolution, it is claimed as sacred by many and has been fought over for millennia by multiple constituencies.…
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…