Category Editorials

The Reagan Era of Voodoo Economics

Take a look at the meme in the opening image. I found it online and thought to myself that when it comes to misinformation, sometimes both side participate. This is how I responded to the posting on Facebook: First, the…

Margaret Mead

There is an apocryphal story all over social media about Margaret Mead. Here is how it starts: Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.…

Gun Deaths? Let’s Do Nothing!

On this subject I’ve often written that doing nothing doesn’t seem to be working, which I firmly believed until I did a search through the old archives. This searching stuff all started when I suddenly remembered a “News of the…

Funny . . . but

On St Paddy’s Day, everyone dresses in green, there are shamrocks and leprechauns everywhere and even green beer. So on MLK’s birthday, I fix up some fried chicken and watermelon and suddenly the NAACP is on my ass! Okay, folks,…

Profits Are More Precious Than People

I’m old and tired of profits being more precious than people in this country. I fought proudly in Vietnam only to find out afterwards that we were fighting and dying over there for corporate profits. Reagan quashed Jimmy Carter’s energy…