Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
Like me, you probably have family, friends, and colleagues who try to impress by regurgitating a point they heard some talking head make on TV. I never fail to give them an attentive ear. I even humor them with a question or two. Because they never seem interested in debating the point; and, at the… Read more.
No matter how keen the editing, typos have a way of slipping into published books. Acclaimed authors like Tom Wolfe, Henry Miller, and Kurt Vonnegut — whose books have the dubious distinction of appearing on the dreaded “Corrigenda List of Book Errata” — know this all too well. Therefore, please forgive me if you found/find… Read more.
The Editorial Board of the New York Times made news on Saturday, when it published a special editorial calling on President Obama to “End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba:” Scanning a map of the world must give President Obama a sinking feeling as he contemplates the dismal state of troubled bilateral relationships his administration has… Read more.
When George Orwell warned of “newspeak,” he envisioned a dystopian state in which a “Big Brother,” like Russian President Vladimir Putin, would use it as a tool to limit and control freedom of thought … and speech. Therefore, I suspect even Orwell would be shocked and disappointed to see newspeak being used instead by members… Read more.
