A friend recently forwarded me an image that nearly made me fall out of my chair. Although I didn’t wind up actually falling from the chair, I was, apparently, in need of a good, old-fashioned …

A good friend of mine, who by happenstance is a superintendent of a school system, was talking with me last week, and the subject of the Minnesota school shooting came up. Here we are, just a …

I have spent a lifetime watching American politics twist and turn, sometimes toward justice, sometimes toward cruelty, often in the messiness in between. But lately I cannot shake the observation …

A friend of mine recently posited some good food for thought upon the wild and woolly realm of social media – that there is a vast difference between “good politics” and “good …

A source of pride, maybe a little overblown, to me has been my vocabulary. I relished the times that editors past and present relate to me that they had to pull out a dictionary to ensure that …

… Everybody’s talkin’ at me I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’ Only the echoes of my mind People stoppin’, starin’ I can’t see their faces …

“The goal of education isn’t to tell you that the world is sunshine and rainbows. The goal is enlightenment. The goal is some deeper understanding of humanity.” …

I’m sure that with just a little bit of thought, most folks would figure out that I’m a huge fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, especially the movies, and especially “Monty …

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti America is sick. Not just in the ways you can measure, poverty, debt, …

This past July 4 was one that will not be forgotten anytime soon. For a holiday that usually signals celebrations of freedom and pride in American ideals, for many Texans, a series of catastrophic …

Donald Trump took another victory lap last week, this time around a so-called “historic” trade agreement with the European Union. The deal, he says, guarantees $750 billion in energy …

I need to alert all readers of this column to an insidious menace facing our nation, threatening our lives, liberties, pursuits of happiness and the taste of ice cream. If we don’t come to …

Imagine if you will this scenario: you have an ATM card in your pocket giving you access to millions of dollars, and you can spend that money however your heart desires. You, too, can have this …

Instead of getting the whatever that is ensconced in the Epstein files, which are also subject to a ruling by a federal district judge that will not open any grand jury proceedings, another piece of …

The next time you see an excavator toiling at a worksite, don’t be surprised if there is nobody sitting in the operator’s seat. Because it started in the dirt. In Arizona, on …

A “Deal” Without Teeth Donald Trump is taking another premature victory lap, this time over what he calls a “historic” trade agreement with the European Union. He claims it …

With the death of Ozzy Osbourne last Tuesday, at the age of 76, a tidal wave of public memorials have whizzed through the pop culture gate, and many of those have featured chronicles of the many …

I wrote this editorial. Because I love to write. But I didn’t need to. ChatGPT, in the “person” of my AI assistant, I call him Patrick, has seen dozens of examples of my writing, …

Ever so slowly, the insidious folks in Hollywood are finding out that pandering to ideology, particularly to that of a political minority, isn’t bringing in the bucks, nor is it attracting …

While you (hopefully not) were waiting for an explanation as to why the Epstein files and client list weren’t released, the lawfare against a sitting president, or Trump if you prefer, has …