Giving credit where it’s due. If you are of our generation, then you certainly know the tune “Irene, Goodnight”. You may have heard it from the great legend of folk/protest music...
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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...
Stay Social
It’s essential for your health. Maintaining an active social life gets harder with age. Little by little people we were close to move away or pass away. And when we retire, we lose about half...
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...
The Big Lie
Getting us moving in the wrong direction. People often assign the following to Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it...
NASCAR
Can you still make a living solely by making left turns? Most of us drive a car daily, or at least several times per month. When we drive we often make turns, both right and left, and no one cares...
The Star Spangled Banner
In the Dawn’s Early Light do we see change coming? In these times of pandemics, social unrest, and self-quarantining, sporting events are few and far between. However, I vividly remember the last...
Power Vs. Race
Giving minorities a fighting chance. Recent election polls reveal poor results for the President and Republicans. A Monday (6/8) CNN poll showed Joe Biden with a substantial 14-point lead over the...
Grass Roots Movements
They are the only vehicles of social change. In America, we love a train wreck. Situations have to reach catastrophic levels before we pay attention. So it goes for social change. Legislators are not...
Conspiracy!
Believing in stupid things. Some of the conspiracies that we fall for require a stretch of the imagination at best, and at worst, are absolutely ridiculous. But absurdity doesn’t stop more than...
