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 →

So, you’re worried about how Facebook and Twitter are starting fires in our national consciousness, huh? Well, replace the batteries in your smoke detectors boys and girls because here comes TRUTH Social. TRUTH Social is the new media platform proposed by a man who wouldn’t know TRUTH if it slapped him in his orange face. … Continue reading TRUTH →

What do you think is funny?  This has always been a question that demonstrates a lot of what a person is about. Personally, I have problems with people who don’t like Mel Brooks. Doesn’t that say something about them? Not that they are wrong, just that they are different. If you see nothing funny about. … Continue reading How About Laughing For A Change →

The title of this blog is “We Were Right.” It comes from a song I once wrote about how my generation – the one that learned its political lessons in the sixties – has abandoned what it thought was right and has now become what it thought was wrong. I cannot help but harken back … Continue reading Looking Back At Looking Forward →

As a big fan of golf, both as a game to play and to watch, the Ryder Cup matches have always been something I have looked forward to. For those unfamiliar with this event - those who have more productive ways of spending their time - the Ryder Cup is a match played by the … Continue reading My Ryder Cup is Half Full →