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,…
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Understanding 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…
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The 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…
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Concluding Volume 44
As 2018 drains away by the minute, I become ever more mindful of the usual milestone year-end promptings. This has become the inevitable time for me to look back on the year that was, or at least the things about it I saw fit to record in my own hand. Well, actually, in my own…
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Highlights in the headlights: celebrating four years of RRS
As it turns out, writing is a more common passion than I thought. Yes, there are those whose living depends upon their ability to express themselves in words and to create something from nothing by painting life portraits on blank pages via written language. Seeking to earn a living by such means is an honorable…
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Late 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.”
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The First Armistice at 100
One hundred years ago at the stroke of the eleventh hour on this, the eleventh day of the eleventh month, all the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Jubilation ensued on both sides of No Man’s Land as the front line soldiers emerged from their trenches to embrace a very welcomed peace. If only…
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The 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…
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Navigating 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…
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