Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
In my February 13 obit on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, I scoffed at the way millions rushed to eulogize him. I noted that, if Scalia were the transformative jurist they were hailing, he would not have been known more for petty and pugnacious dissents than wise and precedential decisions. I noted further that… Read more.
I never went to journalism school. But even I know enough about journalism to know that it is not giving people what they want. It’s giving them accurate and reliable information on events, issues, and trends to function as informed citizens. In short, journalism is more about informing than entertaining the public. Except that CNN… Read more.
Something’s terribly, and obviously, wrong with this picture: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments… Read more.
