It sometimes happens that writers and poets can capture the zeitgeist, or spirit, of a particular era in just a word or pithy phrase. Novelist Edith Wharton, for example, called the late Victorian era “the Age Of Innocence.” French writer Charles Peguy spoke of the period from 1871-1914 as “la belle epoch.” The poet W. H Auden called the 20th
Most “breaking news” stories don’t really “break” anything. After the first sentence, the attentive viewer/listener/reader can pretty much predict the whole story, sans a few minor details here and there. Every once in a while, however, comes a “breaking news” story that is truly surprising. I encountered such yesterday. The headline read: “Supreme Court To Consider 2020 Election Challenge Lawsuits
Well, Donald Trump has barely unpacked his bags at Mar-A-Lago and America appears to already be heading straight down the drain, with Democrats leading the charge. As one reader (thanks NG) recently remarked: “they’re moving very quickly.” Indeed they are. And don’t be reassured by all the “working for ALL Americans” boilerplate. It sounds nice, but they DON’T MEAN A
Today begins an ominous new era for America. It begins the tenure of what is, in essence, a one party government. With Democrats in the majority and voting as a unified block and Republicans in the minority and fractious and feckless, Democrats will control all our branches of government. Now, America has had one party governments in the past (the
Wednesday’s breech of the United States Capitol was so unprecedented, so surprising (it caught the entire DC police force off guard) and so uncharacteristic of the vast majority of Trump supporters, that it was hard to believe that it was actually happening. I, and the vast majority of America’s conservatives and Republicans watched in near disbelief as the mob broke
“Democracy Dies In Darkness” has been the slogan of the Washington Post since 2017. And there is no question that the sentiment is true. But, true as it is, it is also the height of irony that it sits just under the banner at the top of the front page of the newspaper that is, arguably, one of the most
This afternoon’s breach of the Capitol Building by pro Trump protestors was as stupid as it was inexcusable. None of the protestors could have thought that their actions would change the outcome of the election process. None of the protestors could have thought that the breech would further endear Trump’s MAGA movement to the American people. And none of the
In his novel “Love In The Time Of Cholera,” Nobel Prize winning author García Márquez describes a situation where the cholera disease is used as screen for an illicit love affair. After consummating a very long running romantic infatuation aboard a river cruise, the paramours decide that their tryst should be kept a secret. When the boat reaches home port,
The term “gaslighting” refers to a type of psychological manipulation in which the manipulator endeavors to convince the victim that their perception of reality is wrong, thereby making them question their own sanity. Although the term may sound bizarre, it is valid psychological jargon and is used in peer reviewed psychological literature and analysis (see Dorpat, Theodore, L. [1996] and
On Thanksgiving we have many, many people to thank. We offer, first, thanks to our Creator for the gift of life. We give thanks to our priests, clergy and religious who teach us how to live. We give thanks to the patriots, founding fathers, and framers of our Constitution who have given us freedom. We give thanks to our attorneys