In this season of graduations, for the 76th year in a row, no one has asked me to give a commencement address. If someone had, this is what I would have said: “Graduates – First of all, do not listen to a word I am about to say. I speak today as a representative of the … Continue reading A Proposed Graduation Speech
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Aristotle vs. Kant
Does it matter if you do good stuff for all the wrong reasons? This is hardly a new question. Nor is it unexamined. Thinkers have likely wasted millions of hours considering it. Lots of answers. Aristotle said that it is the “intention” that matters, not what you do but why you do it. And then … Continue reading Aristotle vs. Kant
Times Change – Chapter 234,987,562
If you are as old as I am you remember the time when JFK was running for President in 1960. The big issue was whether a Catholic like him would owe allegiance to the views of the Pope or would he exercise his own view of what was best the country. The country did not … Continue reading Times Change – Chapter 234,987,562
Trump Even Wins the Derby
Donald Trump won the Kentucky Derby just now - Sovereignty beats Journalism.
The Future is the Past
We thought it was bad enough that the MAGA’s wanted to take us back to the 1950’s. After all, that was when America was great wasn’t it? That was when America was king and when men were men, and women and “Negroes” knew their places. That, we thought was what MAGA wanted. Oh, baby, we … Continue reading The Future is the Past
A New Job?
You know what’s on whatever it is that Orange Julius uses for a mind. You know he figures that he’s entitled to the new job that just opened up. You know he figures that he should be Pope. Of course, he has to work it out so that the Papal thing will only be part-time. … Continue reading A New Job?
I Say Both
Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Two explanations for this. Both terrible. The most likely bad explanation is the obvious: Trump and his “brain trust” are brainless. Or, alternatively, Trump and his billionaire buddies bought low and today cashed in. So, our country is being governed by people who are incompetent or corrupt. Or both.
It’s Gotta Be Somethin’
I know it’s gotta’ be somethin’ Riddle me this: assume you put a shitload of billionaires together and then turn them loose to make the rules for the country; and assume that the pick the billionaires you pick are the most avaricious, selfish bastards that “anyone has ever seen before”; but then further assume that, … Continue reading It’s Gotta Be Somethin’
Stay or Go?
He’s on his way, this guy who is our President. And he’s not even subtle about it. He’s taking over every portion of our system that could possibly stop him. The legislative branch is already falling off the tree. The judicial branch is losing its authority from Orange Julius’s constant castigation of every judge who … Continue reading Stay or Go?
Listen Again to Big Ben
The story is often told about how Big Ben Franklin walked out of the Constitutional Convention and was asked by a woman bystander what kind of government the people had been given. “A republic, madam, if you can keep it,” he is supposed to have said. That story is used to remind us how we … Continue reading Listen Again to Big Ben
We were right 