Suppose that when you wake up tomorrow morning, in addition to your regular personal responsibilities, the entire country depends on you to also take care of these things: The economy: It is your job to reduce the increased inflation that is harming families; to grow jobs; to solve the supply problems that are leaving store … Continue reading You Shouldn’t Be Crazy →

What makes you angry? Are you pissed off when it takes too long for the waiter to come to your table? How about when you come home from the supermarket and realize that you forgot the one thing you really needed for your dinner? Even worse, how about when the dry cleaner loses your shirt?  … Continue reading Why and How to Get Pissed Off →

Like so many folks do as the calendar turns, here are my predictions for 2022. I think a lot of them have a good chance. Which ones do you think are most likely? Michael Strahan will have two more shows.Steve Harvey will have four more shows.Dr. Oz will be the candidate for the U.S. Senate … Continue reading Predictions: 2022 →

We can never know, in the long run, what the effect will have. Even the best events sometimes redound in ways that weren’t anticipated. Isn’t that what’s called, “unintended consequences?” For example, the assassination of President Kennedy probably made more likely the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – maybe the most valuable piece … Continue reading Unintended Consequences →

Dear People of Kentucky: Everyone feels horrible about what you are going through. What decent human being wouldn’t? The recent tornado has wrecked your homes, your businesses, and your lives – in some cases, ending them. One can only hope that you will be able to recover from this catastrophe - and recover soon. One … Continue reading Dear People of Kentucky →

Over the past decade or so, there has been an increase in the numbers of those who say that baseball is no longer the American Pastime. Football gets better TV ratings. Hell, the Super Bowl is basically a national holiday. The inner city has very few places to play baseball and the few available venues … Continue reading Baseball Is Still the National Pastime, Unfortunately →

Maybe Justice Kavanaugh has never read the Bill of Rights. More possibly, he probably spilled beer all over his copy. Whatever the reasons, it is hard to imagine how he, and, sadly, the other conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, could be sympathetic to the proposition that abortion should be left to state legislatures and, … Continue reading Maybe They Missed That Class →

Imagine if Netflix or one of the other networks came out with two new comedies - one about a racist blue- collar worker and another one about an equally racist nouveau riche black businessman – both of whom were shown to be fools.  How loud would the howls of protest be? How long would it take … Continue reading Maybe Those Were The Days →

The Democrats couldn’t sell the Hope Diamond for a buck ninety-five.  How horrible are they in persuading the country that their ideas are worthwhile? Now we have been treated to an intra-mural Democratic scrum over the passage laws for infrastructure improvement and for social benefits – a scrum that has led to Republican advances in … Continue reading Sometimes Salesmanship is Statesmanship →

We rightly decry the hatreds and prejudices that tragically permeate our country. Yet, as we do that, let’s also recognize that it has ever been so. The great US of A, what the star of Bedtime for Bonzo called, “The Shining City On The Hill,” has historically been a hotbed of all types of hatred … Continue reading The Pope in the Oval →