Actually… I just had a chance to read this op/ed from last year’s NYT: What makes a woman? The subject is still timely, especially thanks to hijinks like those coming out of […]
Book Review: A Rising Tide of People Swept Away by Scott Archer Jones
How will we respond to the children? – Scott Archer Jones We live in a world of diversity, of change, of uncertainty. The new novel by Scott Archer Jones, A Rising Tide […]
Columbine: 17 years ago today
April 20, 1999. I remember exactly where I was, exactly what I was doing. My co-worker at US West, Joe Lopez, turned to me and said “hey Sammy, there’s been a shooting […]
The grief motorist
The girl is gone, the mystery remains… His name is Michael and he was sitting in his car on Dubuque Avenue in South San Francisco, separated by a K-rail barrier from the […]
Kalamazoo Gals: Gibson Guitars, what are you thinking…?
What the hell, Gibson? Perhaps a short course in, oh, “How the Internet works” would not be a bad idea, perhaps…? I have had a long love affair with Gibson guitars. My […]
You want this job: 150 days off in 2016!
Pssst. Hey, have I got a few sweet jobs for you. In the first, you’ll only have to work 111 days in 2016. You’ll be off — yep, off! — for 150 […]
2016: so far a bleak year, fettered by anger
I began 2016, the year in which I turned 70 years old, so damn angry. More than sufficient reasons exist for all that anger. I, like many of you, am unwillingly steeped […]
In wake of #SCOTUSnom, political warfare beckons. We’ll all be losers in the end.
If your taste in politics runs toward the hardball, then you’re about to be sated. President Obama today nominated the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]
The Left’s one-dimensional cartoon buffoon shitshow
Exposing the rift in America’s labor politics The Guardian has an excellent piece that dissects the Trump phenomenon with an honesty not found in American media: Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. […]
Who’d work for President Trump? Guess. Go ahead, guess.
Imagine Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Really. Journalists and pundits have been too busy covering this election cycle like a boxing match (detailing debate punches and counterpunches […]
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