Dear Nike I’m writing to let you know that I’m disturbed by your selection of Colin Kaepernick as the face of Nike and I’m now embarrassed to be seen sporting the Nike ‘swooch’. It’s a shame that you had to go this way, after all, you’re in the business of sports apparel and I happen […]

Saturday, a Drudge Report headline said something to the effect that ‘Americans are sickened by the politicized funerals’, those of John McCain and Aretha Franklin. I couldn’t agree more. Both were Trump bash-fests, grand-stand events, headline broadcasters. I don’t know about Franklin but in the case of McCain, it’s just as he wanted. His choreographed […]

Trump The vultures are circling Washington in anticipation that Trump is busted = impeached = gone. Based on disclosures to date, that may still be premature. Scouring the news, some very well informed figures have serious doubts that anything disclosed so far are impeachable offenses. The wild cards of course are: 1) Are there other […]

Socialism in America Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist from the Bronx is dumber than a box of rocks, evident most every time she opens her mouth. Her party of ostensible affiliation is in a bind, unsure of whether to support or snuff her. For all gentle non-socialists, it would be easy to conclude that reasonable […]

Its summer and it’s hot, very hot. I know because I wither just in Maryland’s moderate heat. It’s even hotter elsewhere. The past month’s climate headlines seem to place us in the middle of those wildfires burning across California and the West. Hottest temperature ever in Death Valley, broiling well into the hundreds across many […]

On Thursday June 28, 2018, Jared Ramos went into an Annapolis MD newspaper office and blew away 5 people. On Sunday July 1, 2018, in the New York Times Morning Briefing, (an email quick news service for those of us that would never spend a dime on the full New York Times), Joumana Kkatib and […]