Month: June 2024

Let’s face it, President Biden came out flat and did a poor job in last night’s first presidential debate. He certainly did not instill confidence in the voters with his halting performance. Predictably Donald Trump was, as Tom Friedman wrote in this morning’s New York Times, a “firehose of lies” as usual. While the “watch…

Bronson K. Springstead, DVM 1936 – 2024 Recently, I lost another friend, one whom so many of us will sorely miss. Unfortunately, this is the burden of old age, but it doesn’t make it any easier to accept. In this case, we lost more than a person, we lost an American icon. “Bronco” was a…

Yesterday I had the good fortune to attend a neighborhood meet and greet for Patti Hewitt, candidate for the U.S. House, 1st Congressional District of Georgia. It was a lovely get together hosted by David Blumenfeld and his wife, Paula Eubanks, at their beautiful home on St. Simons. Ms. Hewitt, a Democrat, is running against…

Recently, we had the extraordinary opportunity to sit down with the twenty-sixth president of the United States and discuss current events. Theodore Roosevelt played a starring role as president and was a world figure during the rise of American power at a critical moment in western history. No one, in our judgment, could provide better…

Given the tragedy of contemporary politics, one has to wonder what the sage of Sagamore Hill would say if he was still on his bully pulpit. As the conscience of his generation, always outspoken and eager to engage on the issues of his time, there is no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt would’ve had a lot…

As the Trump presidency unfolded and he revealed himself to the American public, it became increasingly tempting for critics to compare him and his MAGA movement to Hitler and the Nazis. Doing so was an easy and satisfying way to show one’s contempt. Linking Trump and his allies to Hitler, of course, was the ultimate…

It’s been a week since I last shared my thoughts here. Like many of you, I get exhausted with the relentless bad news and I search out more pleasant ways to spend my time. At the same time, I increasingly get disgusted with the lame and inexcusable responses offered up by the MAGA crowd, Christian…

On this slow Sunday after a week of tumultuous political news, I’m forwarding Ken Burns’ comments to the 2024 class of Brandeis University for your perusal and, perhaps as in my case, for your edification. A Sunday sermon for our political pastors to take to heart in the heat of the current political battles. Burns,…