30 Aug, 2016
What’s Really Behind the Election
“You don’t have to be a poet to breathe new possibilities into an old, familiar metaphor. Recently, for example, author...
5 Aug, 2016
Our Deteriorating Environment: Is Anybody Listening?
“While the scientists have been doing their job in calling attention to the multiple ways in which environmental decline threatens...
5 Aug, 2016
The numbers don’t lie—but Trump does
“According to a Fox News poll taken this week, voters believe Donald Trump would do better than Hillary Clinton on...
22 Jul, 2016
Ready?
“So, let’s channel the cranky ghost of George Wallace as he justified his 1968 run for the presidency when he...
15 Jul, 2016
Surrealpolitik
“Donald Trump is for war and against war, for gun control and against gun control, pro-life and pro-choice, for politicians...
13 Jul, 2016
Are We in for Another Increase in Military Spending?
“At the present time, an increase in U.S. military spending seems as superfluous as a third leg. The United States,...
2 May, 2016
Changing the Conversation About “The Woman Card”
“The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity...
15 Mar, 2016
The Trillion Dollar Question
“Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure scheduled for the coming decades has received no attention in...