In inverse proportion to the numbers of Covid cases that continue to decrease, the number, the intensity of, and the repercussions for non-compliance of mask mandates are increasing. The rhetoric associated with bucking those mandates are off the charts. Even vaccinations are declared an invalid reason to not wear masks. You see, masks are now […]

It is now by my calculation, 41 days of the Presidency of Joe Biden. In that time frame, Joe was cognizant enough to sit in front of a camera and sign more executive orders in his first days in office than any other President. He was able to order the bombing of targets in Syria. […]

I remember Democrat politics and cultural shifts as a kid. JFK was on the edge of my cognizant years, then came figures like Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Hubert Humphry, Cesar Chavez, Gloria Steinem. Coming of age, there was Jimmy Carter, Tip O’Neil, Ted Kennedy and of course many others. Although raised in a conservative […]

For a long time, I admired Bill Gates. I knew of him as the force behind all things Microsoft (a program upon which I type at this moment), and for most, a love-hate relationship of ubiquity and bugginess. I got a cursory overview of his origins and career in Malcolm Gladwell’s popular breakdown, ‘Outliers’, chapter […]

Where are they? Two entire branches of our federal government are AWOL, MIA. I know that one party controls two branches of the legislature but that’s not quite as straight forward as it seems. I know the Nancy Pelosi House is going to ram-rod anything she can through her slim majority, but the House cannot […]

Today Rush Limbaugh died. I usually would not comment on the life and death events of contemporary public figures. There are thousands of them and how do you choose? There is no personal attachment either, no single point of actual contact, and yet in this case, I will comment. Rush Limbaugh was loved in the […]