Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does."

After a month of absolute chaos in our nation, could someone explain to me what the Tea Party accomplished that was positive? They wanted to end Affordable Care Act/Obamacare by shutting down the government, and they failed. That stupid stunt cost our economy 24 billion dollars.

The Congress will not rescind healthcare reform, and the President would not sign it even if Congress voted to repeal healthcare. It is the law of the nation. Both the Senate and the House passed Obamacare, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it, and Obama was reelected in part due to Obamacare.

Is there a part of the way our government should function that I have missed? Here is a simple sentence to show how legislation works: Congress passes a bill, the president signs it, and often the Supreme Court will look into its constitutionality. This has been the modes operandi of our government for 237-years.

I have traveled all over the world during my adult life. One time in Egypt, a taxi driver and I were talking. He said that Egyptians love Americans but often question our government's actions. I nodded agreement and told him that many Americans feel the same way. Then I told him about a saying that we often use. "Stupid is as stupid does." There in the parking lot near the pyramids and the Sphinx, I explained who Forrest Gump was and mentioned that Forrest said that often in a movie. I am not certain that my cabbie understood my explanation decades ago, but I have understood it for years.

The Tea Party threatened the very basis of our economy, because they did not like Obamacare. Finally, enough members of Congress said that enough was enough. Nonetheless, we will be repeating that stupidity again in the early part of 2014. "Stupid is as stupid does."

I can think of only two things that will result from the Tea Party's stupidity and both are positive:

1. Hillary Clinton will be our next president without a doubt. If the Tea Party and the birthers do not like our first black president, just wait a couple of years.
2. The Tea Party is going to ruin what is left of the Republican Party. They are engaged in political fratricide among the GOP. "Stupid is as stupid does."

Caravaggio Then and Now

12/13/24

Let Me See If I Understand Trump’s Nominees Who’s He Kidding?

12/11/24

My Woodland Avatar Reflects on America

12/04/24

Charles Fort And His Meme

12/02/24

“While I Nodded, Nearly Napping...” There Came a Tapping

11/18/24

What If.... It's All About My Mantra.

11/13/24

Puerto Rico Then and Now

11/11/24

Amid the Chaos A Suggestion about the Next Four Years

11/08/24

The Music That Floated Around in My Head On Election Night

11/06/24

Who is the Headless Horseman? But First, the Background

11/01/24

A Saint and a Sinner Michelle Obama and Lev Parnas

10/30/24

Happy Birthday Ginger She Turned Eight Today

10/28/24

What I Admire about Kamala And How She Will Change America

10/25/24

Robert Reich Paying Homage... To a Special American

10/23/24

A Primer for Leaders Stupid is as Stupid Does

10/18/24

Trump is Correct...Partially He Just Missed Who the Enemy Was

10/16/24

Life Will Improve If You Use More than One Silo

10/11/24

Forrest Trump The Remake of Forrest Gump

10/09/24

Trump Psychoanalyzes Harris But He Reveals His Psych Issues in the Process

10/02/24

Another Eureka Moment Thank You, Nancy

09/30/24

“I Want To Be Your Protector” Said the Neanderthal

09/27/24

Following in the Footsteps of Lt. Zogg It’s All About Being Determined

09/25/24

Two Worlds and Two Realities Pick Your Choice

09/23/24

The Virgin King Enjoying Life in Another World

09/20/24

The Cat Lady By the Dog Gentleman

09/11/24

Creating Fortress America Thoughts of Vulgar Vance

09/06/24

The Weird Duo Donald the Dumb and Vulgar Vance

09/02/24

“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree” The Bobby Paradox

08/30/24

We Are All Teachers Be Careful What You Teach

08/28/24

Destiny or Fate It is Another Either/Or Issue

08/16/24

You Know that You Are Getting Old When You Don’t Know All the New Words and Slogans

08/05/24

Trump as Savior Let Me Hear a Halleluiah

08/02/24

The Third Old Man Or Three Coins in the Fountain of Life

07/29/24

A Story of Two Old Men And How They Will Be Remembered

07/26/24

Thanking Our Grandmothers And Following in Their Footsteps

07/17/24

My Kierkegaardian-esque Parable Either / Or

07/12/24

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary What Would Kierkegaard Do?

07/03/24

How Will We Be Remembered Another Either / Or Essay

06/28/24

Christian Nationalism Who are These Christians?

06/24/24

We Need to Get Honest Much Sooner Than Later

06/19/24

The Sickness Is Spreading Among Many Americans

06/14/24

Had We All Read Longfellow America Would Be a Better Place

06/12/24

Let Me Get This Straight Trump Is An Innocent Man

06/07/24

We Still Aren’t Independent of England Many Still Have the Same Mindset

05/29/24

What Is Trump Doing on Memorial Day? Either Memorial Day

05/27/24

Repeating the Past Make Sure You Understand the Past

05/24/24

What a Difference a Generation Makes Greatness Isn’t Always Genetic

05/22/24

A Very Stable Genius Is Loose and Running Around

05/06/24

Trump’s Roosting Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

05/01/24

Rudy, Be Careful with Your Rants You Should Have Watched Men in Black

04/29/24

Still I Rise Despite Racism

04/26/24

Lincoln and His Better Angels Or Trump and His Worst Demons

04/22/24

Total Eclipse of the Heart Revisited

04/17/24

My Solution to the Abortion Issue Form Follows Function

04/15/24

What Did Rowe Learn from Beethoven? Erasing

04/12/24

Bush’s Bus Ride Leadership or Roadkills

04/05/24

April Fool’s Day For the Donald

04/01/24

A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About, Alfie?

03/29/24

The Real Mona Lisa Or the Fake Ones

03/25/24

Projection, Projection, Projection Trump’s Fatal Flaw

03/22/24

Resurrecting the Quest of Men in Black Before the Election

03/13/24

Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars

03/11/24

It’s Better to Burn Out Than to Fade Away

03/06/24

And a Sickness Too Took Root Donald the Dumb Has Rooted

02/28/24

The Paradox About Ring Kissing Why the Kiss?

02/23/24

Another Bedtime Story for Trump About Aaron and the Donald

02/21/24

Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again 50th Mass Shootings in America This Year

02/16/24

If I Were in Charge of Education This is What I Would Mandate

02/12/24

Citizen Kane and Citizen Trump Live in Xanadu

02/09/24

The Box or Jar of Pandora Another Parable

02/07/24

The Two Faces of Prometheus Which Face Will You Pick?

02/05/24

Trump Wasn’t the First Trump There Have Been Others

02/02/24

The Achilles’ Heel Of the Republicans

01/29/24

My Birthday And the Age of Aquarius

01/24/24

Donald the Dumb Believes Some Really Dumb Things

01/15/24

First, There was Jacques Cousteau Now, There is Ti Ti

01/12/24

Artificial Intelligence Past, Present, and Future

01/10/24

Infallibility of Trump And the Divine Right of Kings

01/08/24

Do You Hear the People Sing... Who Will Not Be Slaves Again!

12/22/23

Why Write? Answers from Vonnegut and Faulkner

12/20/23

Solar Flares and CMEs Impending Impact

12/18/23

I Have a Solution For the Stupid TV Medicare Announcements

12/06/23

Let Me Get This Straight “If you go after me, I’m coming after you.”

11/13/23

The Reason for Being An Either/Or Situation

11/03/23

Batter Up Next Batter

10/25/23

Flipper... Let the Show Begin

10/23/23

Let’s Do the Math It is an Either/Or Choice

10/09/23

Kevin Needs Therapy And a Newer Gaming Video

10/06/23

The Evolution of Humans To the Present Day

09/27/23

Ancient Greeks and the Fear Factor The Truth about the Fear Factor

09/25/23

Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Seems a Bit Premature

09/13/23

Trump Is Better Than Jesus So He Says

09/06/23

Before Burning Books... We Need to Read Them

08/30/23

The Source of Trump’s Mug Shot It’s Naissance was Wagner

08/28/23

Hollow Men Two Troubled Souls

08/18/23

Thomas and Trump The Teacher and Student

08/16/23

Trump Won’t Like Judge Chutkan It Isn’t Wise for Trump To Threaten Her.

08/11/23

Grasp This Truism From St. Francis and Buddha

08/07/23

Returning To the Past: Example One

03/20/23

So, Let Me Get This Straight...the Sequel What’s the Gospel Truth?

03/10/23

So Let Me Get This Straight Let’s Wake Up

03/06/23

Flash: Trump is in Kyiv To Meet with Zelensky

03/01/23

Jabbering Parrots What We Can Learn from Churchill and Buffett

02/22/23

Inherit the Wind And You Will Be Gone with the Wind

02/20/23

Learning from Two Astrophysicists About this World

02/10/23

The Chinese Magic Dragon Went Puff

02/08/23

Let’s Get Honest About White Camelot

02/03/23

Education is a Double-Edged Sword How To Address Learning

02/01/23

Aggressive Chimpanzees Outside of Africa

01/30/23

Where Did GADS Really Go To College? It Wasn’t Baruch College

01/18/23

Virgil, the Tour Guide into Hell The Divine Comedy 101

01/04/23

The Value of Mentors It’s About How We Play Are Cards

12/28/22

Be Careful Whom You Choose as a Mentor Hatanaka or Scrooge

12/23/22

Repeating the Past...Part II Tokyo Rose

12/16/22

Repeating the Past It’s Just Fake News

12/14/22

The Reckoning Day Of the Invincibles

12/07/22

My Way Morphing to My Mentoring

12/02/22

A Picture is Worth a Billion Words Or Pick Your Mentors Wisely

11/30/22

What World Are We Living In? The Denier’s World

11/23/22

A Swan Song Then and Now

11/18/22

Finger Pointing It’s Their Fault....

11/16/22

Conspiracy Theory Nonsense... Except For One

11/14/22

As Shelley Wrote, “We Are All Greek” Some Don’t Get It

11/09/22

A Bedside Story for Donald It Begins, “Once Upon a Time….”

08/29/22

A King Cobra Pitted Against a Python A Teaching Moment

08/22/22

John Gotti Alias Teflon Don and Dapper Don

07/29/22

I Have an Idea Have Bounty Hunters

05/23/22

Where Are Simon and Garfunkel… When We Need Them?

05/06/22

“The Life and Times of Al Capone…Then and Now.” I’ll Never Pass Up a Teaching Moment.

02/18/22

More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy

02/07/22

A Sequel to My Dreamland Journey… To the Brighter Side of Life

01/21/22

Mary Tofts Then and Now

01/14/22

A Cancer, Too, Took Root But the Backstory Is More Important

01/10/22

Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm In Both Mongolia and America

01/05/22

A Sickness Too Took Root Everywhere

12/20/21

Revisiting Gilgamesh A Teaching Moment

09/17/21

We Need to Learn from the Past Or We Will Repeat

09/13/21

Trump Is Returning to the White House Today, August 13, 2021

08/13/21

A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment

07/26/21

Disinformation Is Deadly So, Why Lie to America?

07/19/21

A Story of Three Statues Lee, Jackson, Trump

07/12/21

Resurrection I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger

07/07/21

Patriots Past and Present in America On the 4th of July

07/05/21

Let Me Ponder This for a Moment Wake Up, America

06/18/21

Trump In 3-D Dumb, Delusional, and Despicable

06/16/21

Fake News or Real News I Can Imagine the Debate in Congress

05/26/21

McCarthy’s Talk Which Is Doublespeak

05/24/21

Rewriting History While You Were There

05/21/21

"History Is Written By Victors…" Sometimes

05/19/21

Bamboo vs. Papyrus Fake News vs. Truth

05/17/21

A Trilogy of Choices Either Rewriting History, Editing History, or Reliving History

03/31/21

Getting on the Same PageIn My Class and Our World

03/29/21

I Told You SoPride Goeth Before Destruction

03/24/21

t’s All About Being RememberedChoose Wisely

03/10/21

We Over Me… Or Me Over We

03/08/21

A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life

03/03/21

We Live in Two Different WorldsChoose Wisely Your World

02/05/21

There are Facts…And There are Fake Facts.

01/20/21

The Answer to the Question…What’s It All About, Alfie?

01/15/21

Purposeful LivesOn Steroids

01/13/21

Donald, It Was a Bridge Too FarAnd You Lost, Again.

01/11/21

An Old White Guy Explains RacismAnother Teaching Moment

01/04/21

A Christmas Carol in 2020…It Is in Giving that We Get

12/25/20

Where Is a Martin Niemöller…When We Need an Honest Person?

12/23/20

Achilles’ HeelThen and Now

12/16/20

Branding in the Waning DaysSome Branding Ideas

12/11/20

Either Death Bed ConfessionsOr Death Bed Accusations

12/09/20

This Is a Teaching MomentAbout America

12/07/20

Hitler’s Bunker MentalityThen and Now

12/04/20

1984 RevisitedAnd Last Black Friday

11/27/20

It’s Either/OrTrump Needs to Read Søren Kierkegaard

11/16/20

I Love MeSaid the Narcissistic Joker

11/13/20

The Cheshire Cat Has Divided Our NationAnd Many Kowtow to the Cheshire Cat

11/11/20

Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World

11/09/20

Discerning the TruthA Means to Live Life

11/04/20

On Deciphering the Truth…By Thinking

10/23/20

Bunker Time A Prediction

10/14/20

Damned If He Does, and Damned If He Doesn’t. On Being on the Horns of a Dilemma

10/12/20

The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet

10/09/20

Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity

10/07/20

My Two Worlds…Affect My Life

10/05/20

From Then to NowWhat a Difference Seven Years Has Made

09/23/20

Importance of Human SacrificePast and Present

09/21/20

A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing

09/11/20

The Chicken Has Come Home to RoostWith a Bone Spur

09/09/20

An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin'

06/05/20

It’s About the Way We Play Our HandsPlay Them Well

05/04/20

The Man Without a MaskMini Me, the VP

05/01/20

“I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue….”You Are Standing on Main Streets in America and Shooting

04/13/20

Plague DoctorThen and Now

04/06/20

Angry Old MenThere is an Alternative

02/21/20

What Drives MeBack Then and Now

02/19/20

Seeing Yourself as Others See You…Which is More Clearly

02/07/20

It All Boils Down to Legacy What Will You Leave This World?

09/16/19

A Battle Between Orwell and Kipling… In 2019

09/13/19

Plagiarism Sharpie-Gate

09/11/19

Alabama and Abortion… And Sexism

05/20/19

The Issue of Walls As Seen by Pausch, Reagan, and Donald the Dumb

03/15/19

The Second Law of Thermodynamics And Trump and Entropy

02/20/19

Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall

01/30/19

Ginger, My Intelligent Dog… And Aerodynamics

12/24/18

Krampus, the Bad Santa… Is Coming to Get You

12/21/18

Captain Ahab and His Incarnation In Donald the Dumb

12/10/18

Helping Donald Dumb… And the Rest of Us

11/19/18

"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy"

11/14/18

Another Dinner and Date with Ginger On Election Night

11/09/18

On Land and Sea We Are All Greeks

11/05/18

Lack of Leadership In Turbulent Times

11/02/18

Donald the Dumb Should Have Taken Art History

10/26/18

On Making Your Mark And Leaving It

10/22/18

What White Old Men Need to Understand From a White Old Man

10/10/18

Sexism in Society Especially in Washington

10/05/18

Another Return to Casablanca To Understand the Present

09/28/18

Teaching Students And Learning as a Teacher

09/24/18

McCain’s Life and Death The Life and Times of a Great American

09/10/18

What Goes Around Comes Around…Again and Again

08/17/18

Deep State Bob Woodward and Me

08/15/18

Roger Stone and I What Do We Have in Common?

08/08/18

Stephan Hawking’s Voice Was Sent into Space… But What Did He Say When It Returned?

07/30/18

Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions

07/27/18

Trump Asked, “Am I a F--king Baby…?” Answer: Yes!

07/25/18

The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex

07/11/18

It Is a Matter of Either / Or… Lady Liberty or Donald the Dumb, Despicable, and Dishonest.

07/04/18

Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You….

06/22/18

Ginger's Idea She Wants Hush Money from Cohen

05/30/18

758 Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards

05/16/18

Projection Lock Him Up

05/07/18

Getting an Adult in the Room with Trump… I Have an Idea.

04/27/18

Hannity One of Donald the Dumb’s Lemmings

03/28/18

Pinocchio Back Then and Now

03/26/18

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death The Times They Are Changin’

03/07/18

NDA vs. NDAATAMAS A Stormy Time for Donald the Dumb

03/02/18

Joel and Victoria Osteen True Believers but in What?

12/27/17

Churchill and Democracy Trump and Authoritarianism

12/22/17

Commander and Chief of What? SNAFU

12/13/17

Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock... Remember the Past or Repeat It.

11/29/17

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... Then and Now

11/20/17

What is Kepler Looking For? Intelligent Life in the Universe

11/15/17

The Jim Crow Laws... Went Beyond Our Borders

11/06/17

The Great Moon Fake News vs. Donald the Dumb’s Fake News

10/27/17

Fake News... Of the Italian Renaissance

10/25/17

Impulse Control Ginger and Trump

10/23/17

Free To Be Me— A Driven Dancer

10/11/17

Larsen C Iceberg... Is Adrift

09/20/17

A Part of Donald Dumb Is in All of Us Follow the Money

09/11/17

Donald Dumb vs. Jong-un Two Bullies on the Global Stage

09/06/17

The Hollow Man Who Wears Long Ties

09/04/17

“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma

08/19/17

Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University

08/18/17

Draining the Swamp... And Adding to the Swamp

08/14/17

Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt

08/02/17

The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now

07/31/17

America First Has Been Replaced... With Me First

07/24/17

Just Another Lie Of the Liar-In-Chief

07/21/17

“Close to Treason” It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason.

07/12/17

Rage, Rage... Against the Pissing Pug

07/10/17

Henry II and Thomas Becket Then and Now

07/07/17

I Pledge Allegiance To Donald the Dumb

07/03/17

Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel

06/30/17

Sexism in the World Why?

06/28/17

My Solution to Healthcare Reform... Single-Payer

06/26/17

Donald Showing-Off I’m, Like John Hancock

06/23/17

Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma Falling from Great Heights

06/21/17

The Benefit of Failed Dreams The Dalai Lama’s Oxymoron

06/19/17

Teaching Donald the Dumb There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom

06/16/17

First and Last Witch Hunt... The Work of the Village Idiots

06/09/17

Breaking News from Ginger About Trump Colluding with the Russians and Putin

06/02/17

HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists

05/26/17

Bridge Builder or Wall Builder A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb

05/22/17

Brown vs Board of Education... A Time to Reflect

05/17/17

Donald the Dumb Got Another Needed History Lesson… From the Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny.

05/12/17

The Help Déjá Vu

04/17/17

Elephant in the Room Trump's Mental State

04/07/17

Pride Before Fall Learnings from History

04/03/17

Approval Ratings For Someone Who is Insecure

03/29/17

Emperor's Clothes The Donald Isn't Invisible

03/24/17

A Tweet to God... A Tweet from James Baldwin

03/20/17

Crowd Size Size Isn't Critical, But the Truth Is

03/15/17

On Riding to Samara Then and Now....

03/10/17

What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie

03/01/17

P.T. Barnum Has Returned to Life What Goes Around, Comes Around

02/27/17

Romney and Irish Setter The Political Right is Often Wrong.

02/24/17

Trump and His Trilogy of Errors: Being Smart, Honest, and a Legitimate President

02/22/17

Narcissus and the Donald "I Love Me...."

02/10/17

Icarus and the Donald Warning About Flying Too High

02/03/17

Banning Muslims Making America Great Again

01/16/17

Deplorable... Defining the Definition

11/25/16

Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73

11/18/16

Birnam Wood Has Come to Dunsinane... "You're Fired."

11/09/16

Sexism and Trump Religious or Societal

10/26/16

I Challenge the Trim Trump To Test His Stamina Against Mine

10/03/16

Make America Great Again.... Give Me A Date When America Was Great

09/30/16

The Donald as the Dark Knight He Ain't Don Quixote

09/19/16

The Meltdown of the Donald As America Watches

09/12/16

The Donald and I... Have One Thing in Common

09/07/16

One Great Value of Education... Equality

08/22/16

The Donald and His Mentors... Overseas

08/15/16

The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death

08/12/16

Me First Trump's Motto

07/25/16

A Self-Awareness Game Who is Your Mentor?

06/01/16

The Donald The Relationship Between Ignorance and Knowledge

05/20/16

Master Kong Said... Don't Remember Being Wronged

05/16/16

Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions

04/22/16

Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic "Full of Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing"

03/30/16

Weighing the Heart of a Person Princeton and Racism

03/21/16

Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely

02/26/16

Candidate or a Comedian That is the Question

02/10/16

Defining Conservative Let's Get Honest About Intent

01/29/16

The Donald and the Dulce March to Madness

01/04/16

I Decided to Support the Emperor Donald Starting with His Red Tie

12/07/15

Pensive Pence... And Pensive America Coming of Age

05/20/15

Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today How Has America Changed?

04/26/15

Two Crazy Captains Chasing Moby Dick Then and Now

04/03/15

There are Snowballs in Hell Global Warming is the Greatest Hoax

04/01/15

Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You?

03/19/15

Reliving Many Bloody Sundays Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement

03/07/15

Book Learning vs. Real World Learning... From Across the Seas

02/27/15

Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy

02/13/15

Malala... A Role Model for Millions

02/06/15

Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End

01/05/15

Typhoid Mary and Ebola Kaci The Quarantine Question

12/08/14

Ebola Warning from the Scientific Community

12/1/14

From Witches to Marrying Monkeys Conservatives Have an Answer

11/10/14

Articles as a Living Legacy... Why I Write

09/12/14

An Essay on Leadership Or the Blind Leading the Blind

08/07/14

The Sixth Extinction And the Next Dark Ages

07/27/14

Orwell Was Ahead of His Time... He Should Have Lived in 2014

07/10/14

Conservatives... the Naysayers to the Future

06/30/14

The Chilling Reality of Global Warming Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us?

06/28/14

It Was Obamacare, then Benghazi... Enter Dr. Rove

06/06/14

The White Man's Burden... Then and Now.

05/28/14

The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot

05/15/14

Orwell and Kipling and the Battle of Burma Or Why I Care

05/12/14

Advantages of Growing Old ...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century

05/05/14

Learning to Play Chess from a Master What Jack and Owen Will Learn from Me.

05/02/14

One of the Advantages of Being Right-Brain: Finding Another Prison.

04/24/14

The Sins of the Father in America... What We Must Remember

04/07/14

Big Churches, Big Poverty, Big Problems ...and even bigger questions.

03/10/14

The Two Czars Parallels between Ukraine and Russia then and now

03/03/14

The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory

02/20/14

The Value of Dreaming Instructions from My Cardiologist...

02/14/14

Rand Paul Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

12/29/13

Michele Bachmann An Eschatological Expert

12/20/13

Charlie McCarthy...Then and Now Times Change and So Do the Dummies

12/15/13

Darrow and the Present Remembering to Avoid Repetition

12/01/13

The Martians aren't Invading... But Stupid People are.

11/26/13

Congressional Stupid is Doers You Decide the IQ of Some of These Candidates.

11/17/13

Cromwell's Dissolution of the Long Parliament... Then and Now.

11/13/13

Obama's Place in History Learning from Accomplishments

11/09/13

Ted Still Cannot Get It... Will He Ever Say, "I Do So Like Green Eggs and Ham?"

10/20/13

Semantic Shift ...Morphing the Meaning of Words

10/07/13

Roberts and the Rubicon Open Letter to Chief Justice Roberts

03/29/13

Learning the Truth from the Past... Will Benefit the Future

03/15/13

Evolution Vs. Creationism The Blessing of Problems - Learning

03/13/13

A Lesson About Life What I Finally Learned When Turning 70

01/28/13

The Egyptians and the Republicans ...A Learning from the Past

01/16/13

New Year's Resolution for the Opposite Sex Or Suggestions from a Very Feminist Male

01/01/13

Is it a Time to Chill or a Time to Get Busy... That is the Question?

12/31/12

The Three Grovers of My Life The Farmer, the Puppet, the Incarnate God

12/01/12

Bonhoeffer—Crossing the Line... Thank You: Dietrich, Bobby and Barack

11/20/12

Binders of BS... Could Create Blessings from BS

11/11/12

"It was The Best of Times..." Economic and Natural Disasters

11/04/12

Moonwalking over Women... "Stupid is as Stupid Does"

11/01/12

Open Letter to the Chief Justice John Roberts... And Open Dinner Invitation

09/05/12

Clint Eastwood's Speech... And the Importance of Living Wills

09/03/12

Correcting Churchill... The Value of Viewing Life

08/28/12

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree Newton...Yes-Romney...No

08/14/12

Ethics at Two Levels And Neither Work Well for Romney

08/12/12

Campbell Has Gone Socratic An American Questioning

07/30/12

Political Predictions Clinton vs. Santorum in 2016, and Clinton Wins

04/15/12

Come and Get Them Molon Labe Both Then and Now

09/25/11

Palin and History The Resurrection of Life via Revere's Ride

06/12/11

A Vision of a New America Has Replaced Our "You are Fired" Attitude

05/05/11

So What are You Going to Do About It? The Advantages of Dreaming

12/05/10

I'm Not Liberal Enough And Neither is America Just Say No to the Just Say No Group

12/01/10

The Luddites are Back The Things I Learned About National Healthcare--40-Years Ago

08/23/09

Speaking of Security... On Winning an All Expense Paid Trip to Obama's Inauguration

05/18/09

Bobby and Barack Election of Barack Obama

09/28/08

Believing in a Dream...Again Maybe Chris Matthews of Hardball was Wrong This Election Cycle

12/11/07

Biko A Man Who Died for an Idea that Didn't Die

09/12/07

Donald Woods A White Liberal Who Knew His Place...

08/05/06

Freedom of the Mind The Contributions of Stephen Biko

08/03/06

A Tribute to Nelson Mandela Happy Birthday from All Your Admirers from Around the World

06/18/06

What's Wrong with Being a Liberal? A Defense of the Left-Wing

05/22/06

Where Do You Draw the Line? Reflections of a Pointy-Headed Intellectual

01/08/06