


The Hill We Climb
At noon today Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the 46th President of the United States. But 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest ever […]

Scarlet letters not enough
Two scarlet letters for Donald Trump are meaningless. So what if the history books can note that he’s the only president in history to be impeached twice? Impeachment is little […]

you are here.
Originally posted on I didn't have my glasses on....:
? ? — “here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. there is no why.” -kurt vonnegut ?…

Haunted by a song
The song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield was released in 1967.

This isn’t Viet Nam
For those too young to remember, during the Viet Nam war an American major was quoted as saying, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” That morphed […]


Belated but hearty congratulations to new Georgia senators
Almost lost in coverage of the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6 was the news that Georgia had just elected two new Democratic US senators, Jon Ossoff and […]

Rioters, vandals, insurrectionists, anarchists … and stupid
Call them what you will, those people who invaded the US Capitol on January 6, but be sure to include “stupid.” Most of them didn’t wear masks because they somehow […]