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Dark matters
Posted on November 11, 2016 20 Comments
What irony. My last post was on the sunny, warm, glowing happiness that comes with San Diego and its Great Ball of Fire, that spreads over the landscape virtually every day of the year. Then I came back up to our main house in Valencia and a week of welcomed rain and cold, with dark […]
Fouls come home to roost
Posted on February 12, 2016 17 Comments
It’s déjà-vu all over again: Pat Buchanan vs Eugene McCarthy. And the powerful appeal to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs with the primitive emotions of fear and anger at its base is crowding out common sense and prudence. I am going to be blunt and hope we can handle it here as it is just too important to ignore […]
Reign of error
Posted on November 13, 2015 26 Comments
Watch out. I am going to opine here. It seems appropriate for Friday the 13th in November. If this sort of thing makes the hairs on your eyebrows crackle, just tell me what you think of my autumn Valencia pictures. I will not be offended 😀 I don’t want to be negative or simplistic but we […]
The right to bare arms
Posted on October 9, 2015 43 Comments
Update on October 29: The police in Waco, Texas have just released extensive video footage of the shootout between two biker clubs last year that led to dozens of deaths, injuries and arrests. I suggest that those who advocate that every one of us bear arms take a good, long, hard look at that entire […]
Super Mario
Posted on January 2, 2015 11 Comments
This is an unusual way to launch 2015 but as I have said, I plan to write about whatever pops up each week and this struck me as important. For one thing, Mario Cuomo was the governor of my home state, New York, and for another he is the kind of progressive that I aspire […]
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