Just yesterday I got a call that one of my closest friends had been rushed to the hospital with a life-threatening issue. He had recently had stents put in his carotid arteries to correct blockage stemming from radiation treatments for cancer years ago. I was stunned because I had thought he was out of the…
Month: May 2025
One More Thing About Ukraine
The latest is that Russia and the United States have yet again kicked the can down the road about resolving the Russo-Ukraine War. Now the world must wait until June 2nd for the next sit-down talks. Only the most naive among us or those who are helplessly partisan hold out any hope that something substantive…
The Day the Bulls**t Died
By now we all have heard the unctuous hyperbole ad infinitum and ad nauseam that is Donald Trump. Remember his promise to end the Russo-Ukraine War in twenty-four hours if reelected to the presidency? Since then he has continually praised Putin and blamed Zelenskyy, cut back on U.S. support to Ukraine, and publicly questioned the…
An Interesting Little Book
If you missed this book, you might want to pick it up as a primer to help you understand the pros and cons of contemporary economics. Reading it challenges our knowledge of economic realities. The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future by Jeff Booth (Stanley Press, 2020) argues that…
The Dance of the Wolves
Putin and Trump’s dance about negotiations to settle the Russo-Ukraine War is nothing more than a charade bringing more death and suffering to the Ukrainian people. Like Nero, they fiddle in the face of destruction as they dance about to achieve their nefarious schemes: Putin to render Ukraine defeated and impotent; for Trump a scalp…
And Another Thing…
Trump is a dangerous racist. It’s been more than 100 years since we’ve had an outright racist in the White House, the last being Woodrow Wilson, an apologist for slavery, who actively worked against admission of African Americans to Princeton and, as president, mandated that the federal workforce be segregated by race. Trump’s racism is…
The New Dark Age: A Trumpian Dystopia
It is impossible to read, watch or listen to the news without recoiling from what is happening in the United States. It seems as if all the great accomplishments of western civilization from the Renaissance to the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment and even the Industrial Revolution are under attack by barbarians bent…
What Have You Done?
Recently, over dinner with friends, the topic of Trump and his threat to our democracy came up. The hand-wringing and disbelief about what was happening made me suggest that we needed to speak up, even when provoked by longtime MAGA friends. Not surprisingly, there was an air of hopelessness given that all of us were…
The Pope and Us
Somehow it seems like justice that the election of the new Pope dominated the news cycle and blew Trump off the front pages. For me it was a needed tonic to the drumbeat of hate and discord that comes from the Trump camp. More importantly, the historical announcement of an American Pope and its meaning…
Dr. Pangloss and the American Mind
One of the wonderful things about being up here in the woods is that there are no distractions, there’s no noise, no one just dropping by, no place I have to go or something I must do. The solitude gives one time to think; even more, it encourages thinking thoughts about existential matters. I’m writing…