Keeping track of where I am in the cycle of the year has changed over time. Like I suppose it has for others. It’s along the same lines of life events and wants. You remember right? Wanting to be ten, then a teenager at thirteen. Onward it was sixteen and a driver. Eighteen, just to be eighteen. The big one, twenty one. Wahoo. Then things begin to slide. It seems that now I am … [Read more...]
Old is new: Incarcerating the homeless could work
After decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain, our touchy-feely neighbors in California are now talking about a “new” solution to chronic homelessness. Although leaders there shroud the concept in euphemistic language, it is actually a very old idea: Incarceration. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he is calling for the mentally ill and drug … [Read more...]
Oil Ain’t All That’s Rigged
Everybody knows the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows.Leonard Cohen & Sharon Robinson Would you rather read about sex, oil or oil and sex? If you chose number three, … [Read more...]
Sherman R. Frederick Commentary: If Joe Biden goes …
Joe Biden’s the most snake-bit president in two centuries. In little over a year in office, he’s faced a worldwide pandemic, scary inflation followed by a botched Afghanistan withdrawal and now the potential start of World War III in Ukraine. If Americans could magically start all over again, I have no doubt they’d pick someone else – anyone else – to lead us through these … [Read more...]
Biden’s SOTU speech
Main topic of conversation at last week’s coffee klatch was President Biden’s State of the Union address. The general consensus of the group, both left and right, was that it was a complete dud. What Biden sought to do was to say that by working together we could solve all of America’s current problems. This after over a year of doing everything wrong, he is proposing a … [Read more...]
Is This You? Phone Calls and Cattle Guards
You should know that my family comes from a long line of people who worked for the phone company. You would think that we all had phones growing out of our hands after all the years we put in. But! Yes a phone ringing “but.” But you would be wrong. For some reason most of us have an aversion to the phone after years of installing, fixing and answering phones. Today I have a … [Read more...]
Eve of Destruction
“God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time!” — from a traditional spiritual Last week, Czar Vladimir the Last raised the specter of nuclear weapons in his personal war against Ukraine. Somewhere in North Korea, Kim Jong Un is jumping up and down screaming “he’s stealing my act!” Several days earlier, NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd raised … [Read more...]
Ukraine invasion
The long awaited invasion of Ukraine by Russia occurred last week. For many weeks the date certain for the assault was February 16th, but the actual date was a little over a week later. Not since Adolf Hitler launched his famous “Blitzkrieg” to start World War II, has the world seen as major a conflict in Europe. Immediately after the first shot was fired President Biden … [Read more...]