Bits & Pieces # 73
There is a lot of noise being made lately about a heroin epidemic, The question this brouhaha brings to the mind is; is it real or is it a tool being used by big corporations to keep the ball rolling? Is
Year: 2016
Guns Do Kill People
Guns do kill people and if you are one of the simplistic geniuses who made up that cute little slogan about people doing the killing, you are not completely wrong, just without combat experience and grossly naïve. Picture the nutcase who mowed
Election Views #11
Mitch McConnell proved today on national TV why he is nothing but a dead fish. This is a clown who spent the last eight years trying to foil Barak Obama, even as Obama beat his brains out in two Presidential elections. This
Bits & Pieces #72
I have been meaning to start a column with this for weeks but every time I came close, it seemed that Bernie Sanders would abandon reality and refuse to retire from a field on which he had won great victories but was
Military Spendthrifts
For those of you who love to listen to Donald Trump rattle on about making America great again and how he’s going to rebuild our military to make it the greatest force in the world, a few facts could be in order
Dealing With Wrong
President Obama visited Japan this week, making him the first American president to enter that country, since WWII. This trip gave Obama’s right wing opponents an excuse to start whining about how he was going to apologize for America dropping the bomb
How Dirty Can It Get?
Everybody’s marveling over how the two leading candidates have such low approval ratings; Hillary at -53% and Trump at -73% but that’s nothin’. This campaign is just getting to the dirty part and neither Hillary nor the Donald is going to walk
The Economy Looks to the Election
The touchstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her stated reason for the presidential run is the fiscal regeneration of the American peole. So what else is new? Every politician and his brother is currently making the same statement. At least half of
Bits & Pieces #71
Trump, the ultimate outsider, has hired Paul Manafort; the ultimate insider to run his campaign. Manafort claims that Trump has run away from the field because he has distanced himself from those who messed up the system. Okay, so where does
Flying Into Hell
I don’t know about you but I have come to hate flying. A century or so ago, when I was a kid, I flew with my family to many foreign lands and a good deal of this one. It was always