The Republican Party has policy positions that most Americans agree with. Men. Women. Americans of every race, religion, sexuality, and economic class. Yet the GOP works overtime on undermining this…
Category: <span>Misc.</span>
When was the last time you listened to a speech and thought to yourself, “Wow, that was a great speech!” Such speeches are rare nowadays, especially ones destined for historical…
Schadenfreude is one of my favorite words. It’s a noun that means, pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune. Does this make me a bad person? Perhaps. But the video is…
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” —Mary Oliver “Human life begins on the far side of despair.” —Jean-Paul Sartre A poem or haiku gets to the essence of life…
“One’s destiny lies not in the past nor the future…” Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea Alexander the Great had his destiny, and the world remembers it thousands…
How I saw the world without leaving home. Before I retired, I was asked on many occasions why I didn’t travel as much as other people in my social circle. …
“One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”…