Few things set the United States apart from other nations like the Second Amendment. We may search high and low among other industrialized nations and not find anything in any other constitution that has had as many judicial interpretations guaranteeing any citizen the inalienable right to arm themselves with weapons intended for use only in…
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Our spring of inflation, alienation and a windfall
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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Cold War reheat & rehash
For literally the first half of my living and breathing existence, the specter of war between the United States and the nation once known as the Soviet Union was never far down my list of worst fears in this life. What made that particular nightmare so petrifyingly frightening was the potential likelihood of a nuclear…
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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…
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Finding joy in the divided house
All democracy is a work in progress. Despite its flaws and pitfalls, democratic governance remains the best thing going as a means to unify culturally diverse people and affording all with an array of available options to grow and thrive. In a country that guarantees so many freedoms, it is the responsibility of every person…
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Roe v Wade at 49
The Supreme Court decision that ultimately granted female citizens the privacy to assume control over their own reproductive health has been the law for less than half a century. In spite of this, there are more people living now who have never known America without Roe v Wade than who remember the illegality of pregancy…
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Volume 47: A cataloged first-person account of 2021 CE
Measurement of time in terms of days, months and years is a manmade metric, a means of identifying intangible benchmarks relative to and relevant only to the existence of the human species. These arbitrary milestones have long since become living universal fixtures in the lives of the descendants of those who invented them. The ceremonial…
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Insult, injury and rebranding of Oklahoma Football
As with love and politics, much can happen in the world of college football in one week’s time to completely alter the image of a program and the outlook for its future. The dark clouds created by actions of individuals may not pack the forthcoming gloom and doom they typically represent. Here along the Mother…
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Our expensive demand for fatal justice
Legally killing a person as a criminal sentence has been with Judeo-Christian civilization since the time of Moses and with the human species since long before that. The demand of an eye for an eye has been not only tolerated throughout the ages but promoted and showcased by many governments as a means of ultimate…
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Farewell to starvation wages
Rarely in the socioeconomic evolution of the human species do we find ourselves in the middle of a transformative moment which has not been created by any political agenda or legislated policy. As Covid-19 cases steadily decline and move below sub-crisis numbers, the dearth of labor is becoming ever more apparent. There are many who…
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