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…
History as Judge I religiously read Letters From an American every day, first thing. I was put onto it by our friend Candice several years ago. Candice is a retired NYC school teacher and is someone I always describe as a person for whom the word “Moxy” was invented. The daily post is authored by Heather Cox Richardson, a noted academic historian and Professor at Boston College, where she specializes in the arenas of the…
Topic Overload I occasionally get recommendations from readers for topics for my blog stories. Yesterday, one of my regular readers, my friend Steven, sent me a list of ten such recommendations. I know he was flying back to New York yesterday, so I suspect he was killing time in between movies on the flight. I have another friend who is also a regular reader and also has the name Steve. He was recently on a…
Fear of Aging For as long as man has walked this earth, he has shown a certain fear of aging. The Bible gives us an alternative to aging in the legend of Methuselah. He is noteworthy in providing the link between the original prophets of Genesis (specifically Enoch) and Noah. His predecessors lived for several centuries and his descendants, like Noah, and he lived to almost 1,000 years. From that time, human longevity kept shortening,…
Atlantic and Pacific I am drawn to the differences between East and West. I lived most of my adult life in the East and I have chosen to live the rest of my life in the West. The Egyptians built their cities for commerce and living on the East bank of the Nile and they built their monuments and mausoleums for their passage into death on the West side of the Nile. The sun also…