Lawrence Meyer

Back in high school, when things weren’t looking good we liked to tell a joke: “I was feeling depressed; nothing was going right, Then I heard a voice say to me: ‘Cheer up! Things could be worse.’ So, I cheered up, and, sure enough, things got worse.” So here we are, with less than three…

“The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess…If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest.”                                                                                                “Compensation” Ralph Waldo Emerson Every year at this time, when winter arrives with its bone chilling cold, gray…

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.  Turkish proverb Back in the previous century, when I was a mere child, my friends and I used to delight in the antics of Abbott and Costello, in particular a skit entitled, “Who’s on First?” The sketch was a…

Who are we? Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the despondency is overwhelming. The results of Tuesday’s election are dispiriting, to say the least, for many of us. The realization that half of our fellow citizens voted for someone with so many disqualifying features and a disqualifying character…

                          “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”                                                …

By Lawrence Meyer Donald Trump held a press conference on August 8 in the ballroom of his “home,” Mar a Lago–at least he called it a press conference. The press was there, of course, but they were actually props who asked questions that no one watching on live television could hear, allowing Trump to go…

J.D. Vance has taken on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz about his military service—more than 20 years in the Army National Guard, retiring as a master sergeant. Vance has criticized Walz for allegedly resigning from the National Guard when his unit was deployed to Iraq. “What bothers me about Tim Walz,” Vance said, “is the stolen…

Fifty years ago this month the House Judiciary Committee was preparing for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. The committee ultimately charged Nixon with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of Congress. Nixon had participated in the cover-up of crimes committed by his agents—the Watergate break-in, the burglary of the offices of Daniel…

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of…

In the 1952 movie “High Noon” Will Kane, the sheriff of an unnamed western town, is left alone to face the murderous Frank Miller. The townspeople, who the sheriff is paid to protect, desert him in his hour of need because they are cowards, willing to accept the chaos and corruption Miller represents rather than…