Hubris

Hubris

 Hubris: Excessive pride, self confidence “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.” America is at one of those lull before the storm...
Here We Go Again (2)

Here We Go Again (2)

 These are strange times in America. Republicans, traditionally the political party of the wealthy owner and business class, have rebranded themselves as the working man’s party while the Democrats, traditionally the political party of labor, the disenfranchised and...
Cracks

Cracks

 “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”     Leonard Cohen Is the glass half full or half empty? It’s the age old question. There has been much handwringing about an authoritarian takeover of the world and even of the United States....
Team Trump

Team Trump

 “Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.” City of LiesHistorically Republicans have been in favor of smaller and limited government while Democrats have supported a larger and more activist government. In recent years that framework has changed in...
Reinventing Myself

Reinventing Myself

 It’s been quite a shock at my age to discover that the values I’ve lived by all these years are wrong. I grew up in the fifties and sixties. We didn’t have personal computers or smart phones to guide us so we lived according to the popular maxims of the day. For...