Defining yourself as a retiree In a previous article (“Retirement 101: Maintaining...
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Stamp Collecting
Looking for the Penny Magenta and the 2 cent Black I grew up in the 1950’s before the onslaught of...
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White Fragility
Understanding racism from the white perspective. Racism in some form or another is unavoidable...
Security or Freedom?
What do Americans really want? American voters often go to the polls claiming that they are unhappy...
Fatal Distractions
Using misinformation to steer us away from our problems. President Trump is running scared. That...
Sports in a Pandemic
The good and the bad of the re-opening Across the leagues, sports are trying to activate. This is...
Fake News
Controlling the narrative to hold onto power Fake news is nothing new. It was used as early as the...
Political Power
The most effective means of guaranteeing your rights. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota...
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An Eye for an Eye, or an Eye for a Wad of Bills…Your Choice
Is it time for a new religion or do we just need a reboot for the old ones? Many of us who have read the Old Testament and have come across the “eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” idea have labeled...
An African American Perspective on Racism
It’s who we are. As a black man in America it’s easy for me to fall back on this: every decision made in America has a racial component to it. I said that once to a Canadian friend and she...
Grants for Senior Citizens
Why Apply? by Erin Milano The crisis-stricken global economy of our era has affected all people, even our seniors, too. Retirement fund, whether invested in stocks, stored in the banks, or simply...
Yes You Can Pick Sides…and Like It!
Radio as it should be According to documented evidence, there are 15,445 commercial radio stations in the United States as of the year 2020. That does not include the several hundred others that...
You Like to Shop?
This is all about you. My wife asked me to cut all the lawns around the house, pull all the weeds from outback and put the patio furniture inside before it rains. I told her I would, but that I was...
Dealing with the Poor
A threat to all of us. I am a pragmatic liberal. I embrace liberal perspectives because they serve the entire nation, and so that means they serve me personally. I want all people to live...
Meth Heads & Quakers
HEADING The following is true as nearly as I can remember it, with perhaps a few embellishments. Los Angeles is a glorious concoction of the rich, the famous, the almost rich, the never will be...
Looking for Great Radio?
Check out Bob and Cheri I grew up on “Imus in the Morning”. As a teenager, Don Imus played right into what I wanted — very irreverent and outrageous. A little later on, it was...
My Best Friend Lives in the Mirror
500 Years of Women’s Self Portraits Most of us concerned with art realize that women have been highly undervalued. The infamous Performance Art Group, Gorilla Girls, posits that women are only 7% of...
Vaccines and Autism
Junk research turns science on its head For the longest time, science has been at the mainstay of America and its technological achievements. But that was then. Nowadays conspiracy theories abound...