If you are capable of reading this then you likely were tutored in this ability by someone. It is also likely that that person was a professionally employed educator otherwise referred to as a “teacher”. If you can add and subtract well enough to balance a checkbook this ability was also likely passed on to… Continue reading The A,B,C’s of Hypocrisy
What Would Bert Do?
Love is but a song we sing. Fear’s the way we die. You can make mountains ring. Or make angels cry. – Get Together (Chester William Powers) Lyrics ©Universal Music Publishing Group Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing It has been nearly twenty- five years since my friend, boss and… Continue reading What Would Bert Do?
A Bully For You
Bully vb bul.lied; bul.ly.ing : to behave as a bully toward Browbeat, cow, hector, intimidate (Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary) When I was of middle school age I had an encounter with a neighborhood bully. I was not a tough kid but I was a longshoreman’s son and being the object of persecution for some other… Continue reading A Bully For You
THE LIES HAVE IT
The Cuban Missile Crisis, Chernobyl, Watergate, Clinton-Lewinsky, Iran Contra, George Washington and the cherry tree, Einstein failing math, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, U2 (the incident not the band) , “No new taxes” The USS Maine, weapons of mass destruction, Cigarettes, Joe McCarthy, Hitler to Chamberlain. (Neville, not Wilt) What do all the above mentioned have… Continue reading THE LIES HAVE IT
Friendship in the Age of Trump
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” (Marie Curie) We make exceptions for our friends. Between cringes we convince ourselves that their misogynistic, racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic jokes were careless slips of the tongue, tasteless attempts… Continue reading Friendship in the Age of Trump
First blog post
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