Hydration is one of those essentials most living things require for compatibility with life. Wherever an alive and breathing person goes on this spinning rock hurtling through space they must have available an ample amount of that precious element, that diatomic molecule unique to this planet and fundamental to the survival of most of the…
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In praise of a necessary fixture
The preliminaries for the 2020 Presidential Primary race have begun and regardless of what any candidate for the Democratic nomination may be bringing to the table, the Presidential incumbent and his water carriers are standing by with appropriate colors and brushes at the ready to paint the winner as a Socialist! Uhhggg! How awful. Socialism,…
Continue ReadingUnderstanding an essential epiphany
I remember writing about the evolution of the human soul a few months ago and waxing philosophical on what a fascinating phenomenon it is to witness. It is the ability of men and women to evolve after reaching a point of enlightenment regarding basic characteristics of their own being that gives me a lot of…
Continue ReadingThe consequences of failed leadership
As America enters the fourth week of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, any humor or levity that may have taken the edge off heretofore has long since evaporated. Those with the means to end this shutdown are, via their intransigence, beginning to do some very real harm to very many real people who…
Continue ReadingLate autumn values inventory
“…one thing we can all agree on are the common values that are neither Republican nor Democrat, neither liberal nor conservative, neither wealthy nor destitute, neither religious nor agnostic. These are the values that are American and, as it turns out, basic to being human.”
Continue ReadingThe electoral needle moves out of the red
It is the morning after the 2018 midterm election and the sun has in fact risen in the east and now is shining on a 242-year-old republic which will no longer be governed under one-party control. Democratic House of Representatives candidates have won the requisite number of seats, some of which are still in the…
Continue ReadingNavigating through the campaign mud
Under oath, when an ordinary citizen deliberately communicates a blatant and provable falsehood to an elected politician it is called perjury. Over mass media, when that same politician communicates a spun half-truth or an out and out bald-faced lie (or directly benefits from a dark money group choking the airwaves with tall tales on their…
Continue ReadingDocumentary film review: Fahrenheit 11/9
If there were a prize to award to a filmmaker who could correctly assess, diagnose, provide an accurate etiology and prognosis if corrective action is not taken by a community or group of people, there is but one recipient who could win it outright multiple times over. There are few in the business who can…
Continue ReadingRestoring checks, balances and sanity
Ah, September! Football Time in Oklahoma has been ushered in with a welcomed decline in the daily high temperature and the primary election runoff is now in the rear view mirror! The changing of the seasons has brought us a clear picture of who is running against whom for what office as we are now…
Continue ReadingUntainting the term “career politician”
It is an even numbered year and campaign season is in full swing along this, the most conservative stretch of Old Route 66. Although this particular corridor of the Mother Road may be a microcosm of the rest of the USA, the shade of red it sports makes for a louder than average echo canyon…
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