Category: Current Events

A penny for your thoughts: How would Abraham Lincoln’s evil twin behave in an alternate universe given the American political and business ethos of today? Let’s call him Dishonest Abe. In this alternate world, Dishonest Abe represented MyTell, a children’s toy company that was a subsidiary of a megamillion conglomerate, Fleecem.  Under dubious circumstances, Abe ‘obtained’ […]

On a bitter cold Thursday evening, a driver of a local funeral home van stopped at a QuikTrip leaving the engine running as he went inside for a purchase.  Like so many, this driver could not bear the thought of returning to anything less that a toasty vehicle when he made the cold walk from […]

Groundhog Day loops back around on Tuesday, February 2nd.  Indeed, we wake each morning to more of the same endless days of isolation, social distancing and masking.   The Coronavirus’ societal impact arrived near the time of the Spring Equinox, morphing the usual time of optimism into pessimism.  The long year of 2020 departed leaving us with […]

Best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984, George Orwell would seem an unlikely apologist of Adolf Hitler.  Though no supporter of the Fuhrer, Orwell acknowledged Hitler’s underlying appeal to the Germans that entices us all: An inherent desire to fight.   This impulse to fight finds vent in our own country as evinced by […]

For most of our history, the nomination of a Supreme Court justice summoned a mere passing interest.   However, in the past 30 years, political stakes have increased to such an extent that each vacancy on the Court ignites a firestorm.   Too much rides on a Supreme Court nomination as the party in power seems more […]

The American C-Note:  Benjamin Franklin Like the $100 C-Note that bears his countenance, Benjamin Franklin lived as one hundred men rolled into one.   Sometimes called the first American, Mr. Franklin lived as the quintessential Renaissance man:  Printer, writer, businessman; scientist, diplomat, humorist and ‘man of affairs’.  His historical reputation stands beyond reproach.  Indeed, no one […]

More than Marching Needed to End Racism From the movie Unforgiven:   “It’s a hell of a thing to kill a man.  You take all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have.”  George Floyd’s death combined with a recent past of all too many similar terrors ignited dry kindling that burst into flames literally and […]

LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES Chinese curse:  May you live during interesting times. The most “interesting” times in America in the 20th century as defined by the number of books written and read include the Great Depression; World Wars I & II; and the 1960’s internal conflict ignited by the civil rights movement and the Vietnam […]