Dropping over Niagara Falls might not be one of them We have all heard it said “it’s as easy as apple pie”, or “as easy as rolling down a hill in a barrel”. Maybe it’s not so easy to make an apple...
Integrated Wisdom
Eclectic is the best word to describe Integrated Wisdom. Our focus in this section is on ideas, and we cut across an unlimited range of topics — from smoking cigars, to cross-dressing, to problems with education, to name just a few. These articles are interesting and entertaining, but also informative and, we hope, provocative. They will get you thinking, sometimes on stuff you never bothered to think about before.
What’s Really Driving Votes in 2021?
It’s not left or right thinking. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that America’s public schools needed to be desegregated ”with all deliberate speed.” Two years later in 1956 some...
What’s Sexy in the 21th Century?
Our tastes are evolving. I ate lunch alone this afternoon and took the time to read the latest copy of a supermarket tell-all magazine I found under the bench I was using as my dining room. In it...
UFOs…Are They Out There?
Or are they already here…many scientists conclude it’s the latter! Unidentified Flying Objects. For many years it was the domain of kooks, conspiracy fanatics and just plain whackos. These devotees...
The Culture is Changing
On the backs & in the hearts of young people On January 20, 2021 a young black woman stood up before the eyes of the world and read a magnificent poem for the inauguration of President Joe Biden...
America the Violent
We are not as peace-loving as we pretend to be. The violence on Capitol Hill Wednesday caused most observers to opine that this isn’t who we are as Americans. President-elect Joe Biden said “to storm...
The Bookie & The Bug
Can old fashioned tough guys save the day? I grew up in a tough neighborhood. Working class maybe, but tough. Street crime was everywhere and personal safety was never guaranteed. The days of...
Entitlement
How to weaken a society I am better, more precious than you are. I have the right to do whatever it is I am doing and that means you must adjust yourself to my whims….almost seems comical, except...
The Real Federal Handouts
Entitlement dispersion around the country There are people who gripe about entitlements — the freebees paid out to people who, as they put it, prefer to sponge off the government rather than...
An American Paradox
Holding contradictory beliefs in the same head. I’m confused. In a sense, we the people of the United States still have a Wild West mentality. We’re one of only 14 countries out of 195...
