“A Polemic,” may be too grand a title for this blog.  While not intending to be impassioned, I would like to lay out the reason why I labor each day to put a few ideas, most of them not my own, in to print.  I owe that explanation to myself as well as to my readers.  I write my

Since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, the stock market has jumped to new highs.  The president attributes that rise to his win but there is another explanation.  As Liz Ann Sonders, a strategist of Charles Schwab, explains, companies are anticipating a ri

Recently, a woman on Facebook admitted she received most of her news from social media.  If true, she is making a couple of mistakes.  First, she is  foreclosing on ideas outside her narrow group of like-minded friends.  Second, she’s vulnerable to fake news, much of it propagan

Writer Rick Perlstein draws some frightening comparisons between Richard Nixon and Donald trump, but concludes that of the two, Nixon, because he was an introspective man, set limits on his immorality.  (He’s Making a List,” by Rick Perlstein, New Republic, Jan/Fe, 2017 pgs. 18-1

Continuing remarks from Monday’s January 2, 2017 blog. (Drawing the Red Line edition.  “Not Going Back,” by Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine pgs. 20-25.)  Other woman’s programs to be affected. Women’s Programs Title IX – The Obama administration used Title IX to hold

If I were allowed to interview the President-elect, I wouldn’t ask Donald Trump about his ties with Russia, or his misogynist views of women or whether or not actor Tom Arnold’s claim that the man is a racist is true. (Click)   I’d ask him what he was reading.  Apparently, he

Recently, I described how the National Rifle Association (NRA) influences gun control laws by funneling campaign contributions to friendly legislators. (Blog 12/13/2016)  Naturally, when our president-elect made a campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” I hoped he meant he’d dis

Regarding the 2016 presidential election, writer Clara Jeffery sums the results best:             …a small electoral majority  chose a candidate who openly embraced bigotry, who slurred war heroes and mocked the disabled, who bragged of sexual assault, who said he’d ro

At 16, I knew everything.  Had I been truly wise, I’d have dropped out of school and kept my good opinion of myself. As it stands, the older I get, the less I know.   Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, seems to share my state of bewilderment.  (“From 9/11 to 11/9” by Gra

The morning after the 2016 Presidential election, I shared a link on Facebook but failed to vet it.  Loss of sleep and disappointment over the outcome led me to be careless.  But that’s no  excuse and I apologized to my friends on the social media site. Due diligence is the watch