We now find ourselves in the Spring of 2022 and our World seems new, different, challenging, awesome and last but not least, expensive. It does not seem to matter that a seasoned public servant now resides in the White House. Even though executive decision making now places the nation’s interest above that of any individual’s…
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The State and the Union
In the two years since a lethal contagion forced us all into lockdown, much has happened in the World and the USA. Much has also happened along this the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. We all who have survived a global pandemic thus far have demonstrated the ability to do what needed to…
Continue ReadingPandemic verse two: Covid still in charge
Here we are a year and a half removed from our initial universal lockdown and the old saying holds true: the more things change the more they stay the same. Also too, if nothing changes, nothing changes. Even though myself and many of my friends and associates are fully vaccinated, this whole World seems like…
Continue Reading50 years of desegregation: Tulsa edition
One claim any American born in the 1940s, 50s and 60s can make that can never be refuted is that we have lived in not only interesting but changing times. While it may be true the technology and wherewithal required to live day to day as a fully engaged citizen in 2021 is a great…
Continue ReadingThe 26th Amendment at 50
Those Americans who were not alive and those who were alive but not yet between their eighteenth and twenty-first birthdays before July 1st, 1971, will never be able to truly appreciate the full justice of what occurred on that date. For those readers who were not yet eighteen years of age on or who were…
Continue ReadingFact & fiction about elections, voters & fraud
Voting is the one activity essential to a functional and vibrant democracy. A government dedicated to upholding the first fundamental principle of a democratic society religiously holds periodic free and fair elections where all eligible among the governed have unobstructed access to electing their leaders. Democracy works best when all constituents involve themselves in the…
Continue ReadingRespecting the one in charge
We are well into Summer 2020 and the worst fears of Yours Truly and so many others are coming to fruition in the ugliest of ways. Thanks to weak, misguided or otherwise absent competence in leadership, the USA now leads the entire World in the total number of Covid-19 cases and fatalities! Anyone who claims…
Continue ReadingSelf-isolating in the rubble of a failed Republic
It certainly didn’t take much to bring down our vaunted House of Cards. Anyone with the slightest bit of foresight within the big picture has understood even before this President announced his candidacy nearly five years ago that we were all basking in the glory of a fool’s paradise. The frustrating part of this whole…
Continue ReadingNavigating through the surreal, unreal and uncharted
Credibility is the currency of leadership. Honesty fosters trust. Adherence to universally accepted facts, even when they do not serve an agenda, commands respect. Believable statements and coherent reasoning by a leader makes them easy to follow. An easy to follow leader instills confidence in all those subject to their decision making. It bodes well…
Continue ReadingA nation of normalized corruption
If you have ever found yourself in the unfortunate circumstance of being in a toxic and dysfunctional relationship characterized by daily physical and/or verbal abuse, public humiliation, intimidation, deceit, infidelity, impropriety at your expense and outright hostility to the point of being in a constant state of fear or anxiety, you know better than most…
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