Santa has come and gone, having left behind his Christmas toys of forever joy. Cars and planes, games and trains; a princess and gnomes, with castles and homes for them to slumber; army men and guns to decimate our numbers; a thousands Lego blocks to trip over in blunder, making one fall hard asunder. Toys […]
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Hamlet’s Covid Soliloquy: To Vax, or not to Vax? With apologies to Shakespeare, Hamlet’s paraphrased soliloquy “to vax, or not to vax”, retrofitted for presumed freedom fighters challenging the government’s mandate for all to vaccinate against the coronavirus: To vax, or not to vax; that is the question?Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe […]
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Pandora’s Ammo Box
Pandora’s Ammo Box In Greek mythology, Pandora was given a box from the gods that contained special gifts, but was told not to open it. Curiosity won out. Pandora opened the box that unleashed sickness and hardship on the world. Today, ‘opening Pandora’s Box’ connotes the law of unintended consequences when an innocent and perceived […]
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 […]
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The Impulse to Fight
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 […]
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American C-Note: Benjamin Franklin
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 […]