“Just because he speaks a little guilty, that don’t make him innocent….”                                                   Orson Welles as the corrupt sheriff in “Touch of Evil” The question…

We are just back from what I am calling a civil rights tour of the South—Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee. We visited the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham where four little girls were blown up in 1963, the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery and…

Last fall, The Washington Post failed to endorse a candidate for President. The decision stunned millions and sparked outrage that resulted, among other things, in 250,000 subscribers cancelling their subscriptions. Today, The Post announced a “change coming to our opinion pages.” Jeff Bezos, owner of The Post, announced that “We are going to be writing…

                                                   “You should have never started it.”                                                …

“When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”                                                                                        …

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.”                                                                                       Ella Wheeler Wilcox Rioting and insurrection have now been given the Presidential seal of approval. The 47th President has acted, disregarding the disclaimers of his Vice President that violent lawbreakers would not be pardoned and his likely Attorney General that pardons…

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…